ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,697, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reference signal transmission omission and postponing" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Runxin Wang (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration signal configuring a collection of reference signal transmissions. The UE may identify a resource overlap between the collection of reference signal transmissions and a...