ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,780, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Avoiding collisions with reference signals" was invented by Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego) and Yan Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) of a data transmission that rate matches the data transmission around one or more resource elements that are to be used for a cell-specific reference signal pattern. The UE may r...