ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,371, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Layer-1 reference signaling outside of carrier bandwidths" was invented by Qiming Li (Beijing), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Rolando E Bettancourt Ortega (Munich) and Yuexia Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein can facilitate transmission and reference signals (RS) associated with layer-1 (L1) operations outside of a configured carrier bandwidth (CBW) of a user equipment (UE). On...