ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,145, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink control information transmission on autonomous uplink in new radio-unlicensed (NR-U)" was invented by Qingjiang Tian (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating uplink control information (UCI) in a network operating over multiple aggregated unlicensed carriers are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a downlink communication signal. The firs...