US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 21 for "Techniques for detecting blockage conditions" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,428, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for detecting blockage conditions" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Tao Luo (San Diego), Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Greentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may detect and report blockage conditions based on measuring signal strengths of reference signals. A UE may determine a slew rate for the signal strength, corresponding to a rate of change of a signal strength parameter (e....