ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,343, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for transmitting and receiving uplink control signal and device for implementing same" was invented by Euichang Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seho Myung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Suyoung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Suha Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent service...