ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,779, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-reference aligned channel estimation" was invented by Gabriele Cesa (Diemen, Netherlands), Kumar Pratik (Amsterdam), Arash Behboodi (Amsterdam), Yuanning Yu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jae Won Yoo (San Diego), Manish Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Hari Sankar (San Diego), Supratik Bhattacharjee (San Diego) and Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications. An example method includes receiving a first transmission comprising a first reference signal and a second tra...