ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,859, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink schemes for a cooperative user equipment with joint baseband processing" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing), Yitao Chen (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Downlink schemes are disclosed for a cooperative user equipment (UE) with joint baseband processing. UEs may establish a cooperative UE unit with one or more neighboring UEs, where one of the UEs opera...