ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,693, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sounding reference signal port enhancements for uplink transmissions" was invented by Yi Huang (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

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 receive, from a network entity, control signaling that includes sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information associated with an increased quantity of SRS ports. The SRS configuration information ...