ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,609, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"HARQ-ACK multiplexing on PUSCH in UL CA" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yi Huang (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable HARQ-ACK multiplexing on PUSCH in UL CA, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable medium are provided. An example method includes selecting at least one of a plurality of PUSCHs in which to multiplex one or more UCI bits, one or more of the plurality of PUSCHs being associated with one or more UL grants,...