ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,515, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses to facilitate larger number of DMRS ports" was invented by Lingling Xiao (Beijing), Bingchao Liu (Beijing), Chenxi Zhu (Beijing), Wei Ling (Beijing) and Yi Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses to facilitate larger number of DMRS ports are disclosed. A method may comprise receiving a configuration for Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) that includes a DMRS type, wherein, the maximum number of DMRS ports supported by DMRS type 1 is 8 for single-symbol DMRS and 16 for double-symbol DMRS, and the maximum numb...