ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,685, issued on July 15, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Replicated grant-free transmissions utilizing multiple configurations" was invented by Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, Va.), Mariam Sorond (Reston, Va.) and Siddhartha Chenumolu (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for using multiple grant-free transmission configurations are presented. A cellular network may assign multiple grant-free transmission configurations to a user equipment (UE). The UE may schedule and transmit the same data using at least two separate grant-free transmission configurations."

The patent was filed on Sept. 1...