ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,413, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiplexing hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement and scheduling request with different priorities and physical uplink control channel formats" was invented by Yi Huang (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

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 append one or more bits of a scheduling request (SR), having a first priority and in a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource associated with a first format, t...