ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,739, issued on July 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Antenna-port-specific repetition and/or power control" was invented by Juha Pekka Karjalainen (Oulu, Finland), Hiromasa Umeda (Tokyo), Mihai Enescu (Espoo, Finland) and Kyoungmin Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method comprising obtaining one or more antenna-port-specific repetition patterns and/or one or more antenna-port-specific uplink power control target values for a plurality of antenna ports; and transmitting an uplink reference signal by applying antenna switching to at least a subset of the plurality of ant...