ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,481, issued on June 30, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method of uplink transmission" was invented by Ke Yao (Shenzhen, China), Bo Gao (Shenzhen, China), Minqiang Zou (Shenzhen, China), Yang Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods apparatuses and computer readable media. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a rank indication or a first index associated with the rank indication, wherein the rank indication is used to determine G rank values, wherein G is a positive integer, and receiving a matrix indication or a second index associated with the m...