ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,365, issued on June 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatus for controlling uplink reference signal transmissions in a wireless communication network" was invented by Ritesh Shreevastav (Upplands Vasby, Sweden), Florent Munier (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Iana Siomina (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example arrangement, a base station (16) serving a wireless device (14) controls the activation time for transmission by the wireless device (14) of aperiodic or semipersistent Sounding Reference Signals (SRS), but accounts for an activation-time recommendation made ...