ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,276, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient channel sounding through analog aggregation" was invented by Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Renqiu Wang (San Diego), Joseph Patrick Burke (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego) and Vijay Kumaravelu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided which allow a network entity to consider an identity property for received RS during analog combining or aggregation in order to achieve efficient channel sounding and estimation. The network entity may receive an RS in a time period via a plurality of ...