ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,755, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cooperative information intelligence protocols and services" was invented by Ramesh C.N. Rao (San Diego) and Sudeepto Roy (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a first wireless device may determine that a leader selection process has been initiated regarding data of a first type for a cluster of wireless devices comprising a plurality of wireless devices in range of wireless communication with one another, including the first wireless device. The first wireless device may, responsive to determining that the leader selection process ha...