ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,370, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Preconfigured uplink resource techniques in wireless communications" was invented by Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Mungal Singh Dhanda (Slough, Great Britain), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. that support preconfigured uplink resources (PUR) in wireless communications. A base station may communicate that support for PUR is available, and may allocate PUR resources to a user equipment (UE) based on requests from t...