ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,222, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Frequency hopping scheme with partial inter-hop bandwidth overlap" was invented by Wei Xi (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Jing Dai (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing), Min Huang (Beijing), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing) and Ruiming Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a wireless node (e.g., UE or BS) measures, at a first hop of a frequency hopping scheme, a reference signal (RS) on a first sub-band of an effective RS bandwidth, and measures, at a second hop of the frequency hopping scheme, the RS on a second sub-band o...