ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,512, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Semi-persistently scheduled rate-splitting communications" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the proposed techniques provide for a semi-persistent design for communicating rate-split messages from a network entity to multiple user equipments (UEs). The network entity may transmit control information to one or more UEs indicating encoding information for receipt ...