ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,427, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink transmission handling after a bandwidth part switch for dynamic uplink skipping" was invented by Xinjie Yang (La Jolla, Calif.), Hemant Sharma (Hyderabad, India) and Sai Lokesh Ladhagiri Krishnakumar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive first control information that enables the UE to skip transmission of a scheduled uplink message via an uplink skipping operation. The UE may receive second control information that requests the UE to switch an ...