ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,958, issued on June 17, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Reference signal design for wireless communication systems" was invented by Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Erdem Bala (East Meadow, N.Y.), Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.), Mihaela C. Beluri (Jericho, N.Y.), Alphan Sahin (Westbury, N.Y.) and Rui Yang (Greenlawn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for phase noise reference signal (PNRS) transmission, comprising receiving, at a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), scheduling information for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (P...