ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,781, issued on May 20, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and device for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system" was invented by Jinyoung Oh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyunseok Ryu (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jonghyun Bang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jeongho Yeo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving, by a user equipment (UE), signals in a wireless communication system is provided. The method, performed by the UE, of transmitting or receiving a sig...