ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,098, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Management of uplink and SRS transmissions on different carriers" was invented by Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided which improve the effectiveness of conflict resolution between a scheduled uplink transmission and a carrier-switched sounding reference signal (SRS). A UE receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a base station. The PDCCH schedules an uplink transmission on a first carrier. The UE d...