ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,490, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for reference signaling configuration" was invented by Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jianwu Dou (Shenzhen, China), Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China) and Linxi Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of identifying patterns on a resource grid, corresponding to resources that are allocated for a plurality of reference signals according to a set of pattern-based parameters. The system and method include identifying a set of resource-location-based parameters to define respective locations of a plurality of regions relative to eac...