US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 17 for "Techniques for partial frequency sounding with frequency hopping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,223, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for partial frequency sounding with frequency hopping" was invented by Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a wireless communications system, a user equipment (UE) may use partial frequency sounding with different frequency subhop patterns so that a portion (which may be referred to as a subhop) of configured sounding reference signal (SRS) r...