ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,505, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Numerology dependent signal transmission" was invented by Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Sundar Subramanian (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The methods, systems, and devices provide for identifying tone spacing for transmission or reception of signals. The identified tone spacing may vary depending on the transmission or reception spectrum band or signal type. Using the identified ...