ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,314, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Time frequency resource mapping for wideband systems" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Hari Sankar (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Jia Fei (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may communicate an allocation of a set of time-frequency resources of a carrier for transmission of a first codeword. The first wireless device may map a first portion of the first codeword to resource elements of a first subband of the s...