ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. RE50,758, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for configuring sounding signals in a wireless communication network" was invented by Erik Dahlman (Stockholm), Yiva Jading (Stockholm) and Stefan Parkvall (Bromma, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The teachings presented herein propose a separation between the configuration of a sounding signal, and the initialization of the sounding signal. In other words, in at least one example embodiment proposed herein, a base station or other controlling entity sends, to a mobile station, an explicit or implicit indication that ...