ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,827, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Collision handling" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Amir Aminzadeh Gohari (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego) and Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a UE determines whether there is an overlap between a first uplink transmission channel allocated for transmission of a first uplink transmission and a second uplink transmission channel allocated for transmission of second uplink transmission. The UE g...