ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,353, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Frequency hopping enhancement for partial frequency sounding" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for a base station, includes: generating, for transmission to at least one UE, control information associated with SRS transmission, wherein the control information indicates an SRS band including a plurality of RBs for the...