ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,028, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and device for determining an uplink transmission resource for a demodulation reference signal" was invented by Yuanyuan Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an uplink transmission resource for a demodulation reference signal includes: determining symbols occupied by a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in N consecutive slots, N being a positive integer; and from the symbols occupied by the PUCCH, determining a second symbol set of symbols occupied by a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), the number...