ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,981, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enabling uplink coherence with discrete antenna elements via signaling" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.) and Kobi Ravid (Closter, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an assistance indication that requests antenna coherence assistance to configure two or more discrete antenna elements with a coherence that satisfies a coherence threshold. The UE may perform, based at least in part on signaling, an ant...