ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,942, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for reference signal patterns" was invented by Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego) and Syed Hashim Ali Shah (Forest Hills, N.Y.).

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 first indication of a set of reference signal instances within a set of resources. The UE may receive a second indication of a resource element format of a reference signal instance of the set of reference signal instances, the resource eleme...