ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,707, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Device, network, and method for sounding reference signal transmission and reception" was invented by Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Jialing Liu (Palatine, Ill.), Qian Cheng (Naperville, Ill.) and Diana Maamari (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network controller may transmit, to a communication device, information about a portion of a sounding reference signal (SRS) bandwidth, where the SRS bandwidth has been configured for the communication device for transmitting a SRS resource set via radio resource control (RRC) signa...