ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,187, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Rate matching and semi persistent scheduling configuration in wireless communications" was invented by Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Le Liu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for identifying a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) independently of a channel quality indicator (CQI) table that is configured at a user equipment (UE). A rate matching parameter may be determined based on one or more of the MCS or CQI table, which may be used for dimensioning a soft buffer that is use...