ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,711, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Group scheduling requests and resource assignments" was invented by Jing Dai (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Ruiming Zheng (Beijing), Min Huang (Beijing) and Qiaoyu Li (Beijing).

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 transmit a scheduling request to a base station using the dedicated uplink resources. The UE may transmit the scheduling request to indicate that a group of UEs requests uplink resources for an uplink data transmission. As a result, the UE may receive downlink contro...