ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,286, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power control for uplink transmission multiplexing" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method includes assigning a first priority level to a multiplexed transmission on a first component carrier based on a priority of content (e.g., highest priority content) of a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission inclu...