ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,384, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method and computer program for uplink control signalling" was invented by Salah Eddine Hajri (Antony, France), Filippo Tosato (Bures sur Yvette, France), Luca Rose (Orsay, France), Axel Mueller (Paris) and Marco Maso (Issy les Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means for performing: grouping columns of a linear combination coefficient matrix into a predefined number of clusters; and sending at least one of the clusters in a second part of a uplink control signalling transmission of a channel to an acce...