ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,780, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Schemes for channel aware tone reservation contention with reference signals" was invented by Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Lior Uziel (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The techniques described herein relate to schemes for channel aware tone reservation (CATR) contention with a reference signal. A network entity determines, based on a reference signal pattern, a reference signal resource element within a first slot ...