ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,417, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-receive mode millimeter wave (mmWave) operation" was invented by Raja Banerjea (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for multi-receive mode millimeter wave (mmWave) operation. In some examples, a method may include receiving, by the wireless communication device in a first receive mode, a multi-user request to send (MU-RTS) in a first frequency spectrum. The method may further include identifying, by the wireless communication device and based on the MU-RTS, a receiver radio frequenc...