ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,294, issued on July 1, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for codeword reporting by wireless communication device for uplink transmissions" was invented by Yang Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Bo Gao (Shenzhen, China), Ke Yao (Shenzhen, China), Hao Wu (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China), Yu Ngok Li (Shenzhen, China) and Wenjun Yan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for wireless communications are disclosed herein. A first communication node reports at least one codeword, a number of antenna ports, a coherence capability of the antenna ports, or a full power transmiss...