ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,481, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Phase tracking reference signal configuration associated with user equipment phase noise suppression capability" 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: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) with phase noise (PN) suppression capabilities may indicate, to a network node, a quantity of subcarriers corresponding to an assumed PN bandwidth (for example, a portion of a frequency sp...