ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,725, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Orthogonal cover code for multiplexing transmissions by multiple user equipments" was invented by Syed Hashim Ali Shah (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The techniques described herein relate multiplexing transmissions from multiple user equipments (UEs) on the same time-frequency resources. A UE may receive control signaling from a network entity indicating a multiplexing order, a repetition con...