ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,037, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Protocol stacks and bearer modeling for RSU assisted UU connectivity" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego) and Soo Bum Lee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for protocol stacks and bearer modeling for assisted Uu connectivity. A UE and a PN may each establish a first connection w...