ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,135, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for sounding and control signaling enhancements" 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: "In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives, from an access node (AN), downlink control information (DCI) triggering a transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS) of a SRS resource set. The DCI indicates a time-domain resource in available time-domain resources for transmitting the SRS resource set. The UE determines a posi...