ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,116, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink channel design for slot-based transmission time interval (TTI)" was invented by Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Yongbin Wei (La Jolla, Calif.), Hao Xu (Beijing), Shimman Arvind Patel (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may be used to help enable low latency communications between a user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) using quick uplink channels that enable a ...