ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,414, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Overlapping physical uplink control channel and physical uplink shared channel transmissions" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Jing Sun (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 control signaling scheduling a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission that overlap in the time domain. The UE may simultaneously transmit the PUSCH and PUCCH transmissions...