ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,987, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wideband UE power saving by switching wideband data to narrowband data with wideband reference signal" was invented by Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus may be a wireless device configured to detect a first trigger condition at the wireless device and transmit, for a network device, a first indication to switch from a first mode of operation associated with a first data bandwidth and a first reference signal bandwidth to a second mode...