US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "PUCCH repetition to increase the reliability of PUCCH transmission" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,052, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"PUCCH repetition to increase the reliability of PUCCH transmission" was invented by Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Chunhai Yao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may increase the reliability of transmission of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) by transmitting repeated copi...