ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,422, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Automatic gain control for super-high order modulations" was invented by Ronen Shaked (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for adapting or considering a receiver gain when using super-high order modulations for data transmissions. In one aspect, a network entity may transmit a tracking reference signal (TRS) in a first slot adjacent in time to a second slot allocated for one or more data transmissions ...