ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,234, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for switching between configured grant modes" was invented by Shaozhen Guo (Beijing), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego), Rajat Prakash (San Diego) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may receive control signaling configuring at least a first UE operation mode and a second UE operation mode. The UE may transmit one or more uplink messages to a base station in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum ...