ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,059, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmit power control commands for network power saving modes" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego) and Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information conveying at least one transmit power control (TPC) command. The UE may transmit a communication using a transmit power based at least in part on the at least one TPC command a pow...