ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,437, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dynamic antenna module combining" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for dynamic antenna module combining. An example method for wireless communications by an apparatus includes sending a request to enable antenna module combining for communications; and communicating with a network entity via a first type of antenna module and a second type of antenna module with the antenna module combining enabled."

The patent was filed on...