ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,884, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Tracking reference signal for multicast and broadcast systems" was invented by Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

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 user equipment (UE) may receive, in an idle or inactive state and in a common frequency resource (CFR) used for multicast and broadcast services (MBS), a tracking reference signal (TRS) configuration for MBS. The UE may receive a TRS according to t...