ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,190, issued on May 5, was assigned to Globalstar Inc. (Covington, La.).

"Reference signal channel estimation" was invented by Peter John Black (La Jolla, Calif.), Jinghu Chen (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego), Tamer Adel Kadous (San Diego) and Wanlun Zhao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure relate to reference signal channel estimation. A wireless communication channel between two nodes can be estimated based on a received reference signal, such as a Sounding Reference Signal. Techniques are disclosed to improve performance of reference signal channel estimation and make channel estimates more robust ...