ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,658, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Criteria and procedures for RLM/BFD relaxation" was invented by Linhai He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for wireless communications that include RLM or BFD procedures. The apparatus measures one or more reference signals for an RLM procedure or a BFD procedure. The apparatus reduces a rate of the measuring the one or more reference signals for the RLM procedure or the BFD procedure based at least in part on at least one measurement of the one or more reference signals meeting a relaxation criteria."

The patent was filed on July 7, 20...