ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,466, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Soft multiplexing of feedback" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Junyi Li (Franklin Park, N.J.) and Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For instance, a wireless device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a base station) may transmit a set of data messages to a set of UEs, the set of data messages including one or more data messages for each UE of the set of UEs. Each UE may select a respective sequence representing feedback associated with the one or more dat...