ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,558, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sounding reference signal configuration" was invented by Haitong Sun (Saratoga, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments describe methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for configuring, transmitting, and using sounding reference signals."

The patent was filed on Oct. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/496,805.

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