US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Flexible reference symbol pattern for wireless communication" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,553, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Flexible reference symbol pattern for wireless communication" was invented by Yongxia Lyu (Ottawa), Jianglei Ma (Ottawa) and Liqing Zhang (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference sequence may be transmitted in wireless communication, e.g. in order to perform channel estimation. The use of a reference sequence introduces overhead. In some embodiments, the subcarrier spacing (SCS) of the multi-carrier symbols (e.g. OFDM symbols) used to transmit one or more reference sequences is different from the SCS of the multi-carrier symbols used to...