ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,644, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reference signal formation for precoding resource block groups" was invented by Ram Krips (Ramat Gan, Israel), Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel), Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Amit Bar-Or Tillinger (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Elad Meir (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may include a user equipment (UE) transmitting a capability message indicating a capability of the UE to support a positioning scheme for one or more reference signals within a precoding resource...