ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,031, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adjusted uplink cancelation" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Diana Maamari (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus, in some aspects, may be a network node configured to transmit, based on a first UL communication associated with a first wireless device and a second UL communication associated with a second wireless device being scheduled for a same UL resource, a conditional cancellation indication (CCI) for the second UL communication of the second wireless device and to receive at least the first UL commu...