ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,596, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Cross-carrier spatial relation indication for semi-persistent sounding reference signal (SP-SRS) resources" was invented by Stephen Grant (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sebastian Faxer (Jarfalla, Sweden) and Claes Tidestav (Balsta, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for a network node to activate semi-persistent sounding reference signal (SP-SRS) resources for transmission by a user equipment (UE). Such methods include sending, to the UE, a control message comprising configuration of a set of SP-SRS resources associated wi...