US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 22 for "Sounding reference signal (SRS) enhancements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,551, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sounding reference signal (SRS) enhancements" was invented by Runxin Wang (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for transmitting sounding reference signal (SRS) resources with frequency hopping. In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may use different SRS port...