ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,256, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Controlling multiplexing of a reference signal on an uplink shared channel" was invented by Yi Huang (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Renqiu Wang (San Diego) and Wei Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for controlling multiplexing of a reference signal on an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH). In an implementation, a user equipment (UE) may time division multiplex (TDM) a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) with other signaling across symbol periods of one or ...