ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,726, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Antenna side combining or antenna side selection in an L-shaped antenna module" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego), Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a target mode in which to operate an L-shaped antenna module that includes a first antenna subarray on a first side of the L-shaped...