ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,381, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for transmitting a cancellation indication" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Xiaoxia Zhang (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 downlink message indicating a set of resources on which an uplink message is scheduled to be transmitted by the UE. The UE may identify a scheduling conflict with at least a portion of the set of resources, where the scheduling conflict may arise between the uplink...