ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,000, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Continuous transmission for new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) uplink" was invented by Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to uplink (UL) transmissions with CP extensions. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station (BS), one or more grants for a plurality of uplink transmissions in a shared radio frequency band. The UE determines a cyclic prefix (CP) extension length for a first uplink transmission of the plurality of uplink transmissions such th...