ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,290, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radio access network (RAN) enhancement for unequal error protection (UEP)" was invented by Toru Uchino (Zushi, Japan), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Vivek Rajendran (San Diego) and Reza Barazideh (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication by a wireless device includes receiving a first bit sequence and a second bit sequence from an upper layer of a wireless communication protocol stack. The first bit sequence is assigned a first class and the second bit sequence is assigned a second class. The sec...