ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,594, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mixed waveform communications" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and John Edward Smee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a set of frequency domain resources allocated to the UE for communicating data over a wireless channel. The UE may receive an indication of a waveform type associated...