ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,627, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for scheduling across multiple cells" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A network entity may schedule uplink resource allocations across multiple cells by defining selection criteria for the uplink resource allocations in which to transmit a channel state information (CSI) report. For example, a user equipment (UE) may receive a control signal from the network entity, which may schedule ...