ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,546, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink and/or downlink scheduling alignment for periodic multimedia traffic" was invented by Hyun Yong Lee (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Diana Maamari (San Diego) and Chih-Ping Li (San Diego).

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 an indication of a plurality of first scheduling cycles that are based at least in part on a second scheduling cycle. ...