ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,816, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Maximum permissible exposure reporting configuration in carrier aggregation and dual connectivity" was invented by Fang Yuan (Beijing), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an uplink message on an uplink channel associated with a special cell (Spcell) to trigger maximum permissible exposure (MPE) reporting based at least in part on an MPE event. The UE may transmit an MPE medium access contro...