ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,450, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for enhanced measurement gaps using sensing procedures" was invented by Hussein Metwaly Saad (San Diego), Diana Maamari (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Hyun Yong Lee (San Diego), Ravi Agarwal (San Diego) and Simone Merlin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling from a serving network entity instructing the UE to predict a signal quality measurement of a neighbor network entity ...