ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,565, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for operation when a scheduled uplink transmission is misaligned with a fixed frame period" was invented by Shaozhen Guo (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Hao Xu (Beijing), Rajat Prakash (San Diego), Luanxia Yang (Beijing) and Siyi Chen (Beijing).

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 an uplink grant scheduling an uplink transmission that is not aligned with a fixed frame period (FFP...