ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,858, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink and uplink processing for a cooperative user equipment" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego), Yitao Chen (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing downlink and uplink processing is disclosed for a cooperative user equipment (UE) operations. A UE participating in the cooperative UE may determine a processing capability associated with each cooperative ...