ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,641, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Robust header compression handling during packet data convergence protocol re-establishment" was invented by Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi (San Diego), Arun Prasanth Balasubramanian (San Diego), Leena Zacharias (San Jose, Calif.), Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego), Arnaud Meylan (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Yuyi Li (Shanghai), Saket Bathwal (Hyderabad, India), Vinay Paradkar (Broomfield, Colo.), Vishal Dalmiya (San Diego), Peng Wu (Shanghai), Vaishakh Rao (San Diego), Ching Ho Weng (San Diego) and Sapna Chittoor Brahmanandam (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tra...