US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "CSI-RS to enhance PDCCH transmission or reception" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,722, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"CSI-RS to enhance PDCCH transmission or reception" was invented by Yuwei Ren (Beijing), Ruifeng Ma (Beijing) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided which enhance receiver performance of PDCCH by allowing a base station to associate a configured PDSCH CSI-RS with a PDCCH for channel estimation and reception by a UE. A UE receives a reference signal associated with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from a base station, and uses the reference signal to receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and/or meas...