ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,193, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"At least partial disablement of transmission port based on thermal condition and associated capability indication" was invented by James Francis Geekie (Carlsbad, Calif.), Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov (San Diego), Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego), Mihir Vijay Laghate (San Diego), Mahbod Ghelichi (San Diego) and Enoch Shiao-Kuang Lu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a User Equipment (UE) may partially disable transmissions on a transmission port based on a temperature condition (e.g., chi...