ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,690, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Starting port for antenna subarray" was invented by Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

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 network entity may select a subset of channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) ports from a CSI-RS resource associated with a two-dimensional antenna array. The subset of CSI-RS ports may be associated with an antenna subarray having a reduced size. The network entity may transmi...