ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,576, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOM Inc. (San Diego).

"Base station-aided user equipment (UE) antenna selection" was invented by Runxin Wang (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for base station-assisted UE antenna port selection. A user equipment (UE) transmits, to a base station, a sounding reference signal (SRS) switching capability report (e.g., a xTyR report) indicating to the base station a number of receiv...