ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,603, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Switching antennas for supplementary uplink" was invented by Sandeep Rao (San Diego) and Thawatt Gopal (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 (UE) may receive a configuration that configures a first band for a supplementary uplink (SUL), wherein the SUL is associated with a first antenna of the UE. The UE may receive, via a second antenna of the UE, a downlink reference signal on a second band, wherein the second band at least partially overlaps ...