ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,230, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Control message with symbol mask" was invented by Tushar Singh (Hyderabad, India), Sudeepta Kumar Nath (Sambalpur, India), Anil Kumar Devpura (Hyderabad, India), Satish Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Loksiva Paruchuri (Hyderabad, India) and Ashok Tripathi (Pragathi Enclave, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to a control message that includes at least one symbol mask to be applied to a set of symbols of a time slot. In some examples, the control message may also include at least one resource element mask to be applied to at least one resource element of t...