ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,704, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting sounding reference signal in wireless communication system" was invented by Seongmok Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungjun Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ameha Tsegaye Abebe (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngrok Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyoungju Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a terminal in a TDD communication system is provided. The method includes identifying that the terminal supports half-DuplexTDD-CA-SameSCS capability, identifying that directionalCol...