US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 6 for "Techniques for visible light communication-assisted broadcast transmissions" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,466, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for visible light communication-assisted broadcast transmissions" was invented by Chao Wei (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Kangqi Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication that the base station supports visible light communication (VLC). The UE may deactivate a radio frequency (RF) receiver of the UE based on the indication, and may receive a VLC message at a photo detector of the UE while the RF receiver of the U...