ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,731, issued on June 10, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Uplink control information transmission methods for carrier aggregation" was invented by Erdem Bala (East Meadow, N.Y.), Philip J. Pietraski (Jericho, N.Y.), Sung-Hyuk Shin (Northvale, N.J.), Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.), Allan Y. Tsai (Boonton, N.J.), Joseph S. Levy (Merrick, N.Y.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), John W. Haim (Baldwin, N.Y.), Robert L. Olesen (Huntington, N.Y.) and Kyle Jung-Lin Pan (Saint James, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) for Long ...