ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,576, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Methods and apparatus for using short reference symbols with a frequency domain offset" was invented by Ming Jia (Kanata, Canada) and Jianglei Ma (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and devices for enabling transmission of a pattern of pilots in a reference signal in which some of the pilot symbols are transmitted on established pilot sub-carriers and other pilot symbols are transmitted offset from the established pilot sub-carriers. This transmission pattern of pilots allows beneficia...