ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,986, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Structured minimization of drive test measurement data from a user equipment to a network" was invented by Hargovind Prasad Bansal (Hyderabad, India), Tom Chin (San Diego) and Shankar Krishnan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects for sending structured measurement data based on a specific type of measurement requested by a network are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may receive a request from a base station for minimization of driving test (MDT) data corresponding to a specified type of measurement by the UE from a larger plurality of available MDT meas...