ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,787, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power control in wireless networks" was invented by Arjun Bharadwaj (Cupertino, Calif.), Rahul Tandra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bin Tian (San Diego), Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.), Simone Merlin (San Diego) and George Cherian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus is configured to determine a target receiver power level for uplink transmissions received at the apparatus, to determine uplink power control information based on the determined ta...