ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,389, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resource skipping for partial uplink transmissions" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Diana Maamari (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 receive segmentation information that indicates a plurality of slot segments within an uplink slot and that indicates a skipping order for the plurality of slot segments. The UE may initiate a partial uplink transmission. The UE ...