ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,795, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reliable encoding and decoding of partial time synchronization function signaling" was invented by Abdel Karim Ajami (Lakeside, Calif.), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Yanjun Sun (San Diego) and Gaurang Naik (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a station generally including obtaining a frame that includes a partial representation of a target time value, wherein the target time v...