ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,001, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiplexing of PUR and SRS" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Weimin Duan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring sounding reference signals (SRS) resources for RRC inactive or idle UEs and multiplexing SRS with small data transmission on preconfigured uplink resources (PUR) An example method by a user equipment (UE) generally includes receiving signaling c...