ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,085, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Measurement report for passive or semi-passive node" was invented by Keerthi Priya Dasala (Bridgewater Township, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for selection of an optimal node or transmission configuration based on measurement or report from a passive or semi-passive node. The apparatus receives, from a network entity, a first signal to initiate communication between the network entity and the passive or semi-passive node. The apparatus measures a received power of the fi...