ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,538, issued on March 4, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement list selection in detection of uplink control channel formats" was invented by Yuanbin Guo (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement list selection in detection of uplink control channel formats. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a dynamic acknowledgement (ACK) list allocation circuit that generates a dynamic ACK list that includes one or two most likely ACK candidates, and a top-Q candidate CQI bits detector that dynamically alloca...