ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,785, issued on July 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Configuration and signaling for UL NOMA operations" was invented by Yifan Li (Conshohocken, Pa.), Allan Y. Tsai (Boonton, N.J.), Lakshmi R. Iyer (King of Prussia, Pa.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Mohamed Awadin (San Diego), Joseph M. Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Switching between Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) modes of a user equipment (UE) can be determined and indicated by a gNB to a U...