ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,164, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for transmitting reference signal and device" was invented by Peng Sun (Dongguan, China) and Xueming Pan (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a method for transmitting a reference signal and a device. The method includes: receiving target information from a network device, where the target information is used to indicate a target signal, and the target signal is N RSs or RSs in N RS sets and is used to activate a SCell of UE; and receiving the target signal from the network device ...