ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,869, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Indication of unused uplink shared channel occasions" was invented by Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Diana Maamari (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communication systems, a user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a set of uplink shared channel occasions within a configured grant period. Each uplink shared channel occasion may include a set of slots for transmitting an uplink shared channel message (e.g., repetitions of ...