ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,403, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for performing wireless communications" was invented by Klaus Pedersen (Aalborg, Denmark), Istvan Zsolt Kovacks (Aalborg, Denmark), Zexian Li (Espoo, Finland), Gilberto Berardinelli (Aalborg, Denmark), Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark) and Thomas Jacobsen (Aalborg Ost, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grant free uplink data transmission is caused from a device using one of a plurality of subsets of a set of physical resource blocks. Each subset is associated with a transmission scheme, wherein at least a plurality of sa...