ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,558, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Using sounding reference signals (SRS) for repeater downlink channel sounding" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Divyansh Karemore (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network entity may employ techniques for wireless communications including obtaining, from a repeater device, an indication of an uplink gain factor associated with uplink transmissions from a user equipment (UE). The network entity may select a prec...