ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,097, issued on May 5, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Dynamic DMRS pattern switching" was invented by Yahia Ahmed Mahmoud Mahmoud Shabara (San Jose, Calif.) and Parisa Cheraghi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. In certain configurations, the UE receives a message having Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) switching bits that indicate which DMRS pattern is being used of either of a first DMRS pattern or a second DMRS pattern. The UE determines the DMRS pattern being used from t...