ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,875, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Priority-aware transmit power control" was invented by Narasimhamurthy Vempati (Hyderabad, India), Michael Siddhartha Arputharaj (Hyderabad, India), Venkatesh Sasanapuri (Hyderabad, India), Kaushik Bhattacharya (Hyderabad, India), Suman Chakraborty (Hyderabad, India), Rajeev Kumar Singh (Hyderabad, India), Imran Ansari (Hyderabad, India) and Shankar J (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for a priority-aware transmit power control in compliance with a radio frequency (RF) exposure ...