ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,466, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Slot level configuration and control message" was invented by Abhishek Saurabh Sachidanand Sinha (San Diego), Senthilkumar Sundaram (San Diego), Christian Oliver Thelen (San Diego), Michael Francis Garyantes (Bradley Beach, N.J.), Deepak Agarwal (San Diego), Orod Raeesi (Uusimaa, Finland) and James Krysl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a radio unit (RU) may receive, from a distributed unit (DU), a control plane message associated with a section type that...