ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,708, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Partial uplink transmission for multiple uplink transport blocks" was invented by Diana Maamari (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for transmitting two or more transport blocks in an uplink transmission, in which a transmitting device may skip transmissions in some portion of a set of allocated resources for the transport blocks. Uplink data may be encoded to be tran...