ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,180, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for signaling sounding reference signals and control 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 including transmitting, by the access node to a user equipment (UE), a control information message comprising an association indicator indicating an association between a reference signal and a channel between the access node and the UE; and communicating, by the access node...