ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,097, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-level time-domain scalable uplink channel resources" was invented by Jing Dai (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Qiaoyu Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may adjust resources (e.g., time resources, frequency resources) used to transmit repetitions of uplink control information (UCI) over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE may adjust two parameters corresponding to different scales (e...