US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 15 for "Downlink feedback information signaling enhancements" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,866, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink feedback information signaling enhancements" was invented by Kapil Bhattad (Bangalore, India), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Pravjyot Singh Deogun (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhancements to downlink feedback information (DFI) signaling is disclosed. According to the disclosed aspects, indications of DFI presence in downlink control information (DCI) messaging are provided that limit any increase to DCI overhead for uplink grants. In a first aspect, DFI presence may be signaled using unused or disallowed DCI variable states for indication of ...