ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,406, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Multipoint transmission in wireless communication" was invented by Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal, Canada), Diana Pani (Montreal), J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal) and Lujing Cai (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments contemplate wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmissions of different types of uplink channels and/or signals in a system deployment where multiple destination points may exist. Some embodiments contemplate that a WTRU may select the destination point of a transmission ...