ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,270, issued on June 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Reference signal sending method, reference signal receiving method, network device, and terminal device" was invented by Lu Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Yong Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference signal sending or receiving method includes: determining, by the network device, a plurality of resource elements REs used to carry a first CSI-RS, where the plurality of REs are distributed in a plurality of resource units, and in each resource unit, a plurality of REs used to carry the first CSI-RS are located on a plurality of subcarrier...