ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,020, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mitigating frequency collisions in a measurement" was invented by Kamalakar Ganti (San Marcos, Calif.), Shreya Satish Nayak (San Diego) and Thawatt Gopal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless communication system, a user equipment (UE) may receive a conflict indication that indicates a frequency conflict between a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT that are supported by the UE. The UE may perform a collision monitoring procedure that is associated with the second RAT and comprises at least: calculating at least a collision metric t...