ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,618, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Partial antenna uplink sounding" was invented by Osama Alrabadi (Nuremberg, Germany), Pramod Jacob Mathecken (Espoo, Finland), Andrea Garavaglia (Nuremberg, Germany) and Mark Wallace (Bedford, Mass.).
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 a first capability message to a network entity indicating that the UE may be capable of using a subset of antenna ports of a set of antenna ports for uplink sounding on a wireless band. Further, one or more antenna ports of the set of ...