ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,342, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for configuration of sounding reference signals" was invented by Jialing Liu (Palatine, Ill.), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Qian Cheng (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by an access node includes transmitting, by the access node to a user equipment (UE), a control information message scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the control information message comprising at least one parameter for the PDSCH and a sounding reference signal (SRS) request field; receivi...