ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,953, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Periodic streaming of reports from user equipments" 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: "A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, configuration information that indicates one or more first measurement types. Accordingly, the UE may transmit, to the base station, periodically and while the UE is in an idle mode or an inactive state, first measurements based at least in part on the one or more first measurement types indicated in the configuration i...