ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,887, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Combinable a sub-resource block (RB) sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission for coverage enhancement" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to combinable a sub-resource block (RB) sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission for coverage enhancement. Specifically, a network entity may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive a sub-RB SRS configuration message, and a transmit one or more sub-RB SRS. The UE may receive a sub-RB SRS configuration message and tr...