ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,556, issued on May 27, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"PHY layer multiplexing of different types of traffic in 5G systems" was invented by Erdem Bala (East Meadow, N.Y.), Alphan Sahin (Westbury, N.Y.), Moon-Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Mihaela C. Beluri (Jericho, N.Y.), Rui Yang (Greenlawn, N.Y.), Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.), Fengjun Xi (San Diego) and Afshin Haghighat (Ile-Bizard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for physical (PHY) layer multiplexing of different types of traffic in 5G systems. A device may receive a commun...