ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,051, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus for control channel detection in an uplink shared channel" was invented by Yuanbin Guo (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for channel detection in an uplink shared control channel. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes generating soft-combined bit streams for an acknowledgement (ACK) indicator, rank indicator (RI), and channel quality indicator (CQI) received in an uplink shared channel. The method also includes decoding the ACK, RI, and CQI soft-combined bit streams to generate Top-M d...