ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,733, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cross-carrier reference signal scheduling offset and threshold determination" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Makesh Pravin John Wilson (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.) and Kiran Venugopal (Raritan, N.J.).

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, via a first carrier, an indication of an offset for scheduling a reference signal on a second carrier, wherein the offset indicates a duration between downlink c...