ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,485, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Techniques for determining a feedback identifier in an inactive communication period" was invented by Diana Maamari (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego) and Linhai He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for method of wireless communication are described. The described techniques provide for a first network entity to receive a configuration to communicate with a second network entity, where the configuration indicates multiple discontinuous active time ...