ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,281, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Repurposing skipping in uplink configured grant to improve uplink coverage" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego) and Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, an uplink configured grant configuration that identifies resources for periodic uplink configured grant occasions. The UE may transmit, to the network node in an uplink configured g...