ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,082, issued on May 5, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Data and control multiplexing in PUSCH in wireless networks" was invented by Tarik Muharemovic (Pearland, Texas), Zukang Shen (Allen, Texas), Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, France) and Eko N. Onggosanusi (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transmission of information in a wireless network is performed by allocating a channel from a transmitter to a receiver. The channel has at least one time slot with each time slot having a plurality of symbols. Each slot contains at least one reference symbol (RS). As information becomes available for transmission, it is clas...