ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,242, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam hopping within a single physical uplink control channel resource" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an activation command to activate multiple spatial relations for a single physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource. The UE may communicate in the single PUCCH resource using the multiple spatial relations. ...