US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 4 for "Configuring and using device-to-device demodulation reference signal (DMRS)" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,874, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Configuring and using device-to-device demodulation reference signal (DMRS)" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to configure and used demodulation reference signals for device-to-device communications in, for example, new radio."

The patent ...