ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,020, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Transmission of sounding reference signal and scheduling request in single carrier systems" was invented by Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, France), Zukang Shen (Richardson, Texas) and Jing Jiang (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of transmission instances which are logical time durations. A secondary node receives an allocation of periodic transmission instances for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) and an allocation if periodic transmission instances for a sounding r...