ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,334, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low latency communication" was invented by Shimman Arvind Patel (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication using various patterns of data and reference signals are described. For example, in a system that supports operation using different duration transmission time intervals (TTIs), a base station may initiate communication with a user equipment (UE) or between two UEs, and UEs may communicate with the base station or with one another using an indicated pattern...