ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,806, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Unified precoding and channel state indication enhancement" was invented by Kiran Venugopal (Green Brook, N.J.), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for transmitting precoding matrix indicators (PMIs) for rank indications (RIs) and receiving coherent joint transmission (CJT) channels based on the PMIs. A method that may be performed at a user equipment (UE) includes outputting, for transmission, a report comprising a precoding matri...