ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,361, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Precoded sounding reference signals for partial reciprocity" was invented by Runxin Wang (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Weimin Duan (San Diego).

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 may determine downlink (DL) channel state information; and transmit a first sounding reference signal (SRS) and a second SRS, wherein the second SRS is precoded based at least...