US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 15 for "UCI feedback enhancement for inter-band uplink carrier aggregation" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,264, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"UCI feedback enhancement for inter-band uplink carrier aggregation" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided which allow a UE to apply power-efficient UCI multiplexing rules accounting for situations in which CCs of overlapping PUCCH and PUSCH are in different carrier groups during inter-band CA to result in improved transmission performance. The UE transmits UCI in a PUCCH in a first CC in response to the PUCCH overlapping in time with a PUSCH in a second ...