US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Techniques for pathloss reference signal measurement in unlicensed bands" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,994, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for pathloss reference signal measurement in unlicensed bands" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for wireless communications in a wireless system including: receiving, by a wireless device, a request to perform a pathloss reference signal (PLRS) measurement procedure in an unlicensed band,...