US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 22 for "Selective sub-band channel quality indicator reporting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,135, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Selective sub-band channel quality indicator reporting" was invented by Yi Huang (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may transmit a set of CSI-RSs corresponding to a set of ports of a UE and the UE may perform a set of CQI measurements on each port and across each sub-band. The UE may select, for each CSI-RS resource that the UE measures, a set of M worst CQIs and may select a best CSI-RS resource based at least in part on a corresponding set of M worst CQIs for the CSI-RS resource. The U...