ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,690, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for PTRS and DMRS port association for transmission of PUSCH on multiple beams" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Weidong Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for associating phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) and demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports for multi-beam physical up...