US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 7 for "Scheduling reference signals for multiple carriers" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,672, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Scheduling reference signals for multiple carriers" was invented by Fang Yuan (Beijing), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects relate to scheduling reference signals across multiple carriers (e.g., across cells). Signaling may be used to indicate whether reference signals are scheduled across multiple carriers. For example, a single instance of downlink control information (e.g., the downlink control information sent via a single time slot) that schedules multiple carriers (e.g., multiple component carriers) may incl...