ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,598, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Management of one or more state variables associated with a communication window" was invented by Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi (San Diego) and Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a user equipment (UE) is configured to manage a state variable (associated with a radio link control (RLC) entity or a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity) that enables the...