ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,712, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method for defining uplink (UL) transmission timing accuracy" was invented by Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.), Prashant Sharma (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Lei (San Diego) and Murali Menon (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE detects at least one of a first type of reference signal (RS) or a second type of RS within an active bandwidth part (BWP). The UE then derives uplink (UL) transmission timing and corresponding accuracy requireme...