ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,409, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-level coding for uplink transmissions" was invented by Daniel Paz (Geva Carmel, Israel), Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Michael Levitsky (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a multi-level coding (MLC) capability for uplink transmissions. The UE may receive a configuration of a selected MLC scheme associated with an uplink transmission, wherein the con...