ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,543, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Port selection diversity" was invented by Jun Zhu (San Diego), Mihir Vijay Laghate (San Diego) and Raghu Narayan Challa (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, using a first reception port and a second reception port, at least one reference signal. The UE may select, based at least in part on a port selection diversity metric associated with the at least one reference signal, a selected reception port of the first reception port an...