ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,654, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sounding reference signal switching impact mitigation" was invented by Yusuf Said Eroglu (Maynard, Mass.), Enoch Shiao-Kuang Lu (San Diego), Pranay Sudeep Rungta (New York), Prasanna Madhusudhanan (San Diego), Yuanning Yu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tae Min Kim (San Diego) and Paolo Minero (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select a maximum supported rank for reception that is capped based at least in part on one or more impacted a...