ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,770, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for reference signal associations" was invented by Fang Yuan (Beijing), Wooseok Nam (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving an indicator for uplink transmission indicating at least an association between at least one of one or more first reference signal ports and at least one of one or more second reference signal ports for a plurality of precoding configurations, transmitting, in response to receiving the indicator...