ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,319, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink configured grant transmission repetition techniques in wireless communications" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hung Dinh Ly (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 communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may be configured with periodic uplink grants that provide a number of repetitions and a redundancy version (RV) sequence for the repetitions. Prior to the start of an uplink grant period, the UE may determine a set of slots th...