US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 22 for "Uplink rank adaptation for MIMO communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,149, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink rank adaptation for MIMO communication" was invented by Ming Yang (San Diego), Kausik Ray Chaudhuri (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods related to wireless communication systems and uplink (UL) rank adaptation are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station (BS), a configuration indicating a resource associated with a plurality of UL reference signal ports. The UE determines, based on at least one of an overheating status, a throughput, or a latency, a quantity of transmission layers for a transmissi...