ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,084, issued on July 29, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for flexible aperiodic SRS transmission" was invented by Afshin Haghighat (Ile-Bizard, Canada), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Janet Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.), Moon Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Young Woo Kwak (Woodbury, N.Y.) and Nazli Khan Beigi (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and systems for flexible aperiodic reference signal (RS) transmissions are provided. For example, a method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for wirele...