ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,388, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interference randomization in orthogonal cover codes" was invented by Syed Hashim Ali Shah (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego) and Liangping Ma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for selecting a first orthogonal cover code (OCC) codeword from an OCC matrix for a transmission occurring during a first transmission time interval based on a first pseudo-random codeword allocator function, such as a first pseudo-random permutation matrix, c...