US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 17 for "Expanded PUCCH transmission bandwidth for high carrier frequency operation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,108, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Expanded PUCCH transmission bandwidth for high carrier frequency operation" was invented by Salvatore Talarico (Los Gatos, Calif.), Gang Xiong (Beaverton, Ore.), Yingyang Li (Beijing) and Daewon Lee (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) configured for carrier frequency operations above 52.6 GHz may decode radio-resource control (RRC) signalling received from a gNodeB (gNB) to configure the UE with a number of resource blocks (RBs) (NRB) for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for each of one or more enhanced PUCCH...