ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,912, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Delay states and associated configurations" was invented by Diana Maamari (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Chih-Ping Li (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego) and Linhai He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for delay states having variable configurations. The apparatus transmits, to a network entity, a delay status report indicating an uplink delay detected by the UE, wherein the uplink delay is greater than a first threshold. The apparatus switches,...