ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,436, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Instantaneous amplitude gain side information for a multiplexed signal" was invented by Tal Oved (Modiin, Israel), Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Michael Levitsky (Rehovot, Israel) and Elad Meir (Ramat Gan, Israel).

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, from a transmitting device, an indication of an instantaneous gain associated with an amplitude distortion associated with frequency division multiplexed downlink communications to the UE from the transmitt...