ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,926, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Communications based on energy costs" was invented by Aria Hasanzadezonuzy (Jersey City, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Tommy Azzino (New York) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

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 receive signaling indicating a plurality of energy values associated with communications with a network node, wherein each energy value of the plurality of energy values is associated with a ...