ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,566, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink control information multiplexing" was invented by Yi Huang (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate an uplink control information (UCI) message including a first UCI bit multiplexed with a second UCI bit, the first UCI bit havi...