ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,452, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Patterns for control channel puncturing and shared channel rate-matching" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a control resource set (CORESET) associated with a first radio access technology (RAT). The UE may receive an indication of a pattern for puncturing a control signal associated with t...