ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,323, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Communication preemption applicability techniques" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Wei Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may allocate uplink and/or downlink resources (e.g., in the time domain, frequency domain, spatial domain) to user equipment (UEs), or groups of UEs, that are subsequently reallocated. A base station may determine a reallocation of uplink resources and/or downlink resources, and may issue a cancellation indicatio...