ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,292, issued on April 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for providing UE-assistance for a selection of a demodulation reference signal port multiplexing pattern" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail (San Diego), Zhifei Fan (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Jun Ma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may measure a frequency selectivity of a channel between the UE and a base station and may transmit sig...