ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,698, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Assistive periodic resources for reliable and low-latency uplink communication" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego) and Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may proactively provide assistive (e.g., redundant) information associated with a set of data messages transmitted via a set of periodic resources, which may reduce an amount of (or obviate the use of) retransmission indications from the network...