ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,882, issued on July 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Phase tracking reference signal transmission" was invented by Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Alphan Sahin (Westbury, N.Y.), Erdem Bala (East Meadow, N.Y.), Afshin Haghighat (Ile-Bizard, Canada), Frank La Sita (Long Beach, N.Y.) and Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device for ensuring a number of Phase Tracking Reference Signal(s) (PT-RSs) are the same for multiple slots. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive control information including a number of scheduled resou...