ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,422, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"UCI transmission method, device, terminal and base station" was invented by Xuejuan Gao (Beijing) and Qianqian Si (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an uplink control information (UCI) transmission method and device, a terminal and a base station, the method includes: when a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) carrying a first UCI and a PUCCH carrying a second UCI overlap in a time domain, dropping the second UCI and transmitting the first UCI, if a PUCCH format used for simultaneous transmissio...