ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,597, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) design for rate-splitting multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Rajat Prakash (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego) and Zhifei Fan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of wireless communication. The method is performed at a user equipment (UE). The method comprises receiving, from a network entity, downlink co...