ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,848, issued on April 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink shared channel resource allocation for multi-cell scheduling" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo) and Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for uplink shared channel resource allocation for multi-cell scheduling. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) message including a first set of bits and a second set of bits defining resource allocation across multiple network entities, as well as indicating that uplink shared channel messages...