ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,821, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"UE sounding procedure between component carriers" was invented by Yu Zhang (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Huang (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Wei Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for handling collisions between PUCCH/PUSCH carrying certain reporting and sounding reference signals (SRS). The techniques provide rules that a user equi...