ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,464, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel metric reporting" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Huang (San Diego) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a capability indicator identifying an interference pattern monitoring capability. The UE may receive, based at least in part on transmitting the capability indicator, a re...