ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,917, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"UCI on grant-free PUSCH" was invented by Robert Baldemair (Solna, Sweden), Ali Behravan (Stockholm), Sorour Falahati (Stockholm), Daniel Larsson (Lund, Sweden) and Stefan Parkvall (Bromma, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, a method for use in a wireless device for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) on grant-free resources comprises reserving a subset of time/frequency resources of a grant-free uplink channel for transmitting UCI, and upon determining the wireless device has UCI to transmit on...