ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,511, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Comb offset hopping for SRS" was invented by Yitao Chen (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may be configured with at least one SRS hopping configuration associated with an SRS hopping pattern, and the UE may obtain the SRS hopping pattern based on the at least one SRS hopping configuration and at least one hopping offset. Here, the SRS hopping pattern may include one or more subsets of hopping patterns and each subset of hopping patterns including a subset of consecutive SRS transmissi...