ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,849, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Energy usage reporting" was invented by Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

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 network entity may transmit an energy usage report configuration associated with an energy usage policy. The network entity may receive a first energy usage report associated with the energy usage report configuration. The network entity may transmit a second energy usage report associated with the first energy usage report. N...