ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,878, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced tracking reference signal patterns" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Mountain View, Calif.), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Sungwoo Park (San Diego), Kiran Venugopal (Green Brook, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Ling Ding (Chester, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a UE capability to receive a first portion of a tracking reference signal (TRS) and ...