ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,169, issued on May 19, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for detecting user data of activated user using pilot and data in a grant-free wireless communication system" was invented by Chung Gu Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Min-Sig Han (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a base station of a wireless communication system including: a step to transmit a codebook allocated to individual user terminals for data transmission; a step to receive a pilot and data from the user terminals; a step to generate an active user inform...