ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,741, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for load resistance signaling for wireless power transfer" was invented by Raviteja Patchava (San Diego) and Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for load resistance signaling for wireless power transfer. A method for wireless communication by a first wireless communication device includes receiving, from a second wireless communication device, a first plurality radio frequency (RF) signals, performing power measurements associated with the first plurality of RF signal...