ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,556, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for latency reduction for path loss reference signal activation" was invented by Fang Yuan (Beijing), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

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 receive a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) (MAC-CE) including an activation command associated with activating a periodic path loss reference signal (PL-RS). The UE may receive an indication associated with a temporary PL-RS, the temporary ...