ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,738, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"UE feedback of content processing time for bi-directional traffic" was invented by Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego), Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Konstantinos Dimou (New York), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for reporting content processing times to a base station to allow the base station to efficiently schedule bi-directional communications one or more UEs. A...