ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,380, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Grant-free downlink transmission" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Shimman Arvind Patel (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques generally support downlink transmissions. For example, a user equipment (UE) may receive a resource configuration for reception of a downlink transmission within a repetition window, the resource configuration including an indicator of a repetition window size for the downlink transmission. The UE...