ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,836, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"PUCCH format 0 signal processing with reduced complexity and robust noise estimation" was invented by Sri Venkata Gautham Thasari (Bangalore, India) and Ayush Agrawal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes receiver and a processor. The receiver receives a signal from a group of terminal devices, over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) Format 0 (FMT0). The processor is coupled to the receiver, performs processing on the received signal to detect payloads and obtain SNRs corresponding to the terminal devices in the group...