ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,417, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Polar multi-layer coding multiple input multiple output scheme" was invented by Peer Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Jacob Pick (Mevaseret Zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a capability of the UE to communicate in accordance with a polar multi-layer coding (MLC) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication scheme. The UE may receive a configuration for communication in accordance with the p...