ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,344, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink spatial filter and power control for joint channel estimation across physical uplink control channels" was invented by Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station performs joint channel estimation for a set of physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs), where one or more PUCCHs of the set of PUCCHs comprises a corresponding DMRS from a user equipment (UE). The UE receives an indication to transmit the set of PUCCHs, one or more PUCCHs of the set of PUCCHs c...