ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,779, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Inter-rat communication techniques" was invented by Ling Xie (Beijing), Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam (San Diego), Zhanyi Liu (Beijing), Yongle Wu (San Diego), Yong Li (San Diego), Jie Mao (Beijing), Scott Hoover (Del Mar, Calif.), Xuqiang Zhang (Beijing), Sumit Kumar Singh (San Marcos, Calif.), Udayan Bhawnani (San Diego), Xianwei Zhu (Beijing), Albert Kim (San Diego) and Prem Swaroop Kadavakuduru (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced inter-RAT communication operations are disclosed. In one aspect, a device may identify one or more trigger events for monitori...