ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,699, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method of codebook sounding reference signal (SRS) antenna mapping to improve uplink performance" was invented by Lijie Zhang (Beijing), Lele Cui (Beijing), Aiman J. Sang (Cupertino, Calif.), Yu Wu (Beijing), Yun Gao (Beijing), Ying Zhang (Beijing), Zhiwei Wang (Beijing) and Qiang Miao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station; and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a soun...