US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 2 for "Antenna grouping for power management in wireless communications" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,196, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Antenna grouping for power management in wireless communications" was invented by Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Tienyow Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit uplink transmission using antenna elements mapped to one or more antenna ports. The UE may transmit a first message to a network entity to indicate antenna ports that are available for wireless communications at the U...