ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,489, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Setting an operational mode of a circuit for communications" was invented by Cheol Hee Park (San Diego), Ayushi Jain (Hyderabad, India), Ajaykumar Ramaswamy (San Diego), Gang Andy Xiao (San Diego), Jintao Hou (Beijing), Hongjin Guo (Beijing), Yi Qin (Beijing), Zengyu Hao (Beijing) and Feng Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the user equipment (UE) may adjust an operational mode of a circuit of the UE by selecting one or more parameters (e.g., power level or clock frequency o...