ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,841, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink subband precoding via linear combination of frequency domain bases" was invented by Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for using subband precoding for uplink transmissions. In some cases, a UE may transmit sounding reference signals (SRS) to a network entity, receive information indicating at least one of a set of one or more fr...