US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 30 for "Radio link monitoring without always-on reference signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,548, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radio link monitoring without always-on reference signals" was invented by Heechoon Lee (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A discontinuous reception (DRX) periodicity may be configured to enable monitoring of a reference signal (RS) for RLM procedures. For example, a transmitting device may configure a DRX periodicity for an RS, where the confi...