ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,188, issued on June 10, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for enhanced multiplexing in wireless systems" was invented by Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal) and Benoit Pelletier (Roxboro, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for operation in a wireless communication system are provided. A first transmission may be initiated using at least a first portion of physical layer resources. A second transmission may be initiated using at least a second portion of the same physical layer resources. The first transmission may be any one of a puncturin...