ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,109, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Indication of unused uplink resources" was invented by Bing Hui (Nanjing, China), Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Reston, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.) and Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives a first parameter for determining a first bitmap indicating first unused CG occasions of first available CG occasions of a first CG configuration and a second parameter for determining a second bitmap indicating second unused CG occasions of second available CG occasions of a second CG configuration. Based o...