ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,880, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink control information multiplexing techniques for uplink communications using multiple repetitions" was invented by Yitao Chen (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for transmission of multiple repetitions of uplink control information (UCI) multiplexed with uplink data in which a spectral efficiency ratio of the uplink data to the UCI is scaled based on one or more parameters associated with the multiple repetitions....