ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,099, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for estimating power consumption of a chipset" was invented by Suyash Ranjan (San Diego), Jittra Jootar (San Diego), Shriram Gurumoorthy (Denver) and Saikat Das (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may identify modes from a set of modes in which at least one modem functional block of a set of modem functional blocks of a chipset operates during a portion of a time interval. Each modem functional block may include a set of units classified to have a power response tha...