ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,994, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink control information (UCI) multiplexed in uplink message with uplink message repetition" was invented by Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Kexin Xiao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to random access procedures. In one example, a user equipment (UE) can multiplex an uplink (UL) message with uplink control information (UCI) on a data region of a first slot and transmit the multiplexed UL message with the UCI to a base station in UL transmission or UL retransmission as part of the random access procedure. The UE may further emplo...