ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,306, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmission of uplink control information in wireless communication system" was invented by Jinyoung Oh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Min Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Younsun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyoungju Ji (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than that of a beyond-4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied t...