ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,555, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Physical uplink control channel with adaptive demodulation reference signal density" was invented by Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station transmits to a user equipment (UE), an indication of an adjustment to at least one of a density or a location of one or more demodulation reference signals (DMRS) for at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format. The base station monitors for PUCCH based on the adjustment to the density or the location of the DMRS indicated to the UE. A UE recei...