ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,393, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Parallel transmission of preamble sequences with data layers for improved data detection" was invented by Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Jing Lei (San Diego) and Renqiu Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems (e.g., non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems), a base station may serve a large number of user equipments (UEs) on the uplink. To improve detectability for these uplink transmissions (e.g., if reference signals are not available for the transmis...