ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,622, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink reference signal repetition for non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Iyab Issam Sakhnini (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Jun Ma (San Diego) and Wei Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods, devices, and systems for wireless communications, and more particularly uplink reference signal repetition for non-terrestrial networks. A user terminal in a non-terrestrial network may identify an uplink reference signal format that includes a comb-based pattern of ...