ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,571, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Considerations for overlap between data and energy harvesting" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), generally including detecting a semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) occasion overlaps with a time period associated with energy harvesting (EH) and processing the SPS PDSCH occasion in a manner determined based on the overlap."

The patent was f...