ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,725, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink ACK/NACK and SR in short durations" was invented by Renqiu Wang (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego), Seyong Park (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, computer-readable medium, and apparatus are disclosed that allow for control information to be provided in an efficient manner during short burst transmission. For example, an apparatus may be configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) that indicates an allocated resource from a base station. The apparatus may also receive data...