US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 16 for "Discovery reference signal multiplexing with non-unicast transmission in a shared spectrum" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,485, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discovery reference signal multiplexing with non-unicast transmission in a shared spectrum" was invented by Jing Sun (San Diego) and Vinay Chande (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network entity multiplexes a non-unicast transmission with a discovery burst in one or more slots within the discovery burst based on a distance from a slot that includes a discovery reference signal (DRS) and outputs for transmission a multiplexed discovery burst including the non-unicast transmission in a shared spectrum based on a listen before talk (LBT) relaxation."

The pate...