ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,077, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Perception based reporting" was invented by Hussein Metwaly Saad (San Diego), Simone Merlin (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego), Yann Lebrun (Velizy-Villacoublay, France) and Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a capability message indicating that the UE is capable of perception with respect to a surrounding environment. The UE may receive, based at least in part on the capability messag...