ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,279, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for updating reference signals" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Ruhua He (San Diego), Stefan Brueck (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany) and Parisa Cheraghi (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for dynamic updates to beam failure detection (BFD) reference signals (RSs) and path loss RS using medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) or downlink control information (DCI). For example, the quasi co-location ...