ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,349, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cell-specific reference signal (CRS) rate matching in multi-radio access technology (RAT) networks" was invented by Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Changhwan Park (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for rate matching a downlink communication channel in a multi-radio access technology (RAT) communication scenario are described. In one aspect, a method for wireless communication performed by a base station (BS) includes rate matching, based on a rate ...