ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,487, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sounding reference signal triggering for enhanced carrier aggregation" was invented by Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A method at a user equipment (UE) includes receiving signaling that indicates a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration (having carriers configured for UL and downlink (DL) data transmissions) and an auxiliary uplink (UL) configuration (having carriers configured for UL reference signal transmissions...