ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,547, issued on May 26, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Power reduction and scaling for multi-carrier wireless terminals" was invented by Benoit Pelletier (Roxboro, Canada), Diana Pani (Montreal), Joseph Levy (Merrick, N.Y.), Fengjun Xi (San Diego) and Christopher R. Cave (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may utilize pre-configured rules for scaling power levels. Channels may be grouped based on a type of data to be transmitted. A power level of a channel from a group may be scaled using the pre-configured rules. A power level of a ...