ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,232, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cross-slot channel estimation of uplink reference signals" was invented by Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Sanghoon Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may generate capability information that indicates a capability of the mobile station to support cross-slot channel estimation based on uplink reference signals across uplink transmissions after switching between a first carrier and a second carrier,...