ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,978, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for communicating over asynchronous slots" was invented by Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first base station may communicate during asynchronous slots in accordance with a set of communication parameters determined from a handshak...