ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,209, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power control for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions on secondary component carrier" was invented by Yi Huang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego) and Tingfang Ji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to supporting power control for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions on an uplink secondary component carrier (SCC) of a wireless communication system. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) receives a power control configur...