ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,299, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Slot format indicator configurations" was invented by Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail (San Diego), Qingjiang Tian (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some designs, UE receives an active BWP SCS value of an active BWP SCS that is 120 kHz or higher, and a reference SCS value of a reference SCS that is the same or lower than the active BWP SCS, and determines a number of consecutive slots in the active BWP associated with the same SFI based on the active BW...