ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,353, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reference signal port mapping for control channels" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Sungwoo Park (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego) and Wooseok Nam (San Diego).

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 configuration message indicating that a control resource set for a downlink control channel is associated with a plurality of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports....