ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,226, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Cooperation techniques for low-power devices" was invented by Fan Yi (Princeton, N.J.), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Lorenzo Casaccia (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects provide a method of wireless communications by a user equipment, such as a low-power user equipment. The method includes receiving, from one grouped user equipment of a first group of user equipments, an indication that the user equipment is a current group leader of the first group of user equipments; receiving, from one or more grouped...