ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,130, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for allocating uplink control channels" was invented by Yingyang Li (Beijing), Yi Wang (Beijing) and Shichang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a method for allocating Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources, including: a User Equipment (UE) detects a Phys...