ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,087, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Managing potential collision between uplink transmission and synchronization signal block (SSB)" was invented by Yitao Chen (San Marcos, Calif.), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for detecting a potential collision between a scheduled uplink transmission and a synchronization signal block (SSB) and transmitting the scheduled uplink transmission. For example, in cases of inter-cell multi-transmission and reception points (multi-T...