ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,646, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmitting uplink control information on physical uplink control channels using different transmit powers" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Yitao Chen (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a message scheduling transmission, by the UE, of uplink control information (UCI) in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource. The UE may receive an indication that the UE is scheduled to trans...