ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,031, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Radio frequency link transmission of uplink communications associated with visible light communications" was invented by Chao Wei (Beijing), Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Jing Dai (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station and via a radio frequency (RF) link, an indication of resources that support transmission, via the RF link, of an uplink communication associated wit...