ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,396, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Signaling solution on reliability enhancement for uplink transmission" was invented by Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Hao Wu (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China), Bo Gao (Shenzhen, China), Ke Yao (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Pan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems and methods for enhancing the reliability of uplink transmissions. A wireless communication device may receive a scheduling grant of an uplink channel from a wireless communication node. The wireless communication device may trans...