ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. RE50,546, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for uplink control information signaling design" was invented by Yu Yang (Solna, Sweden) and Daniel Larsson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, a method by a wireless device is provided for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) on a serving cell on the unlicensed spectrum. The method includes formatting the UCI as a shortened control signalling transmission and transmitting the UCI formatted as the shortened control signalling transmission to a network node. The shortened contr...