ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,537, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Coverage enhancement with frequency selective transmission" was invented by Kai Xu (Great Falls, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.) and Hyukjin Chae (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device determines uplink precoders for a transmission of a transport block. The transmission of the transport block take place via uplink resources comprising sub-bands. The uplink precoders for each respective sub-band of the sub-bands are based on a transmission precoder of one or mo...