ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,312, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for collaborative DMRS allocation for uplink data transmission" was invented by Weizhong Chen (Georgetown, Texas), Ahmed Gamal Helmy Mohamed (San Jose, Calif.) and Colby Scott Boyer (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving, at a cell in a fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) network, a plurality of uplink signals, each uplink signal corresponding to a different user equipment (UE) device in a group of UE devices, (2) collecting, from a plurality of adjacent cells i...