ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,081, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for configuring an initial uplink transmission after a cell switch" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first network node may receive information via a first cell. The information may indicate a resource allocation for transmission of an initial uplink message via a second cell. The initial uplink message is a first uplink transmission scheduled to oc...