ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,722, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Partial CQI feedback in wireless networks" was invented by Zukang Shen (Richardson, Texas), Tarik Muharemovic (Pearland, Texas), Runhua Chen (Plano, Texas) and Eko Nugroho Onggosanusi (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Within a wireless network, feedback information from user equipment (UE) to a control node (eNodeB) is necessary to support various functions. A UE receives an allocation from the eNodeB comprising a plurality of periodic transmission instances for a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a schedule comprising a plurality of periodic trans...