ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,359, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radio access network enhancements for multiple description coding" was invented by Toru Uchino (Zushi, Japan), Vivek Rajendran (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication at a first wireless device is disclosed herein. The first wireless device monitors at least one radio bearer for RLC segmentation information corresponding to a set of SDUs associated with the first wireless device. The first wireless device transmits, for a second wireless device, at least one...