ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,743, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Deadline-based data packets" was invented by Hyun Yong Lee (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Dario Serafino Tonesi (San Diego), Diana Maamari (San Diego), Ravi Agarwal (San Diego) and Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (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 user equipment transmits, to a network node, an indication of a data delivery deadline for data traffic to be delivered by the network node, w...