ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,711, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced PTRS for mitigation of phase noise" was invented by Aviv Regev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ronen Shaked (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Yaniv Eistein (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus may be a wireless device configured to transmit, for a network device, a first indication mapping each of a plurality of residual integrated phase noise powers (RIPNPs) to a corresponding number of subcarriers, receive, based on the first indication, a second indication of a number of subcarriers including a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS), receive, via one ...