ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,955, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced transmission time interval bundling design for machine type communications" was invented by Hao Xu (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enhanced transmission time interval (TTI) bundling design for machine type communications (MTC). A method for wireless communications by a wireless device is provided. The method generally includes determining a mapping of one or more uplink or downlink channels to one or more fixed bundling...