US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 9 for "Narrowband transmissions with finer granularity of reserved resources" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,873, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Narrowband transmissions with finer granularity of reserved resources" was invented by Chao Wei (Beijing), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for narrowband transmissions with finer granularity of reserved resources. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration indicating first resource elements (REs) reserved from being used for narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT) transmissions in a subframe; determining second REs, in the subframe, for narrowband ref...