ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,521, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Precoder prediction for uplink transmission enhancement" was invented by Kiran Venugopal (Raritan, N.J.), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

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 receive a control message indicating at least two precoding matrices and a set of weighting coefficients. The at least two precoding matrices and the set of weighting coefficients may be indicated to the UE for deriving a precoder for uplink transmission from ...