ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,237, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reference signal design for zero-tail orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communications" was invented by Iyab Issam Sakhnini (San Diego), Hemant Saggar (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may generate a first time-domain reference signal sequence of a first sequence length, and may truncate the first sequence length to a second sequence length and may append a header portion and a tail portion to the truncated first time-domain referenc...