ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,431, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for identifying polarization for uplink transmission in wireless communication system" was invented by Jaegon Ghim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heeyoon Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yunbum Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwan Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Changhyun Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 5th generation (5G) and/or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE) may be provided. An el...