ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,980, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for PUCCH transmission, terminal and network-side device" was invented by Xuejuan Gao (Beijing) and Qianqian Si (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and an apparatus for PUCCH transmission, a terminal and a network-side device. The method includes: determining, by the terminal, a first time unit for a PUCCH transmission on a first carrier; determining, by the terminal, a second time unit for the PUCCH transmission on a second carrier based on the first time unit; and transmitting, by the te...