ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,564, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiplexing and prioritization techniques for uplink signaling and non-serving cell synchronization signals" was invented by Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for multiplexing and prioritization techniques for uplink signaling and non-serving cell synchronization signals. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) and a network entity may support a prioritization rule according ...