ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,815, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Uplink transmission (UL Tx) preparation time" was invented by Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Chenxi Hao (Beijing) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for uplink scheduling for communication on an uplink from a user equipment (UE) to a base station (BS). The uplink scheduling is based on uplink transmission (UL Tx) switching time and/or uplink data preparation time of the UE. The uplink data preparation time is calculated based on the UL Tx switching time. For example, a UE can report to a BS at l...