ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,597, issued on May 26, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Resource configuration for overlapping transmissions" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may communicate with a base station by using overlapping transmissions. Overlapping transmissions may comprise a plurality of transmissions, such as a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission, etc. A rule may be applied to indicate/determine power ...