ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,947, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Concurrent code division and frequency division signaling via an uplink channel" was invented by Jun Ma (San Diego), Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Qiang Wu (San Diego), Lianghai Ji (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Mohamad Sayed Hassan (Paris), Karthik Anantha Swamy (La Jolla, Calif.) and Weimin Duan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may operate by asynchronously transmitting code division multiple access (CDMA) uplink signals to ...