ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,939, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Dynamic configuration of aperiodic sounding reference signal offsets in cellular communications systems" was invented by Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.) and Yang Tang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular base station (BS) which determines an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) trigg...