ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,846, issued on May 26, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and devices for joint coding and determining in-effect reference signal resources" was invented by Yang Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and devices for joint coding and determining in-effect reference signal resources. The method for joint coding comprises: determining a first coding value by joint coding on a first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating in-effect reference signal resources and whether the in-effect reference signal resources are available ...