ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,797, issued on June 23, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink transmission and system" was invented by Qinyan Jiang (Beijing), Tsuyoshi Shimomura (Yokohama, Japan), Zhe Chen (Beijing) and Lei Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for transmitting uplink transmission, configured in a terminal equipment, includes a receiver configured to receive second indication information, the second indication information being used to indicate a duration of a CP extension corresponding to a second uplink transmission, and processor circuitry configured to transmit the sec...