ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,310, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Minimization of UL dropping due to collision with measurement gaps for UEs" was invented by Changhwan Park (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Bharat Shrestha (San Diego), Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Rebecca Wen-Ling Yuan (San Diego) and Sanghoon Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication at UE is disclosed herein. The method includes transmitting at least one of a first indication including UE capability information indicating that the UE is capable of transmitting in UL during one or more MGs...