ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,716, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for group common reference signal triggering in wireless communications" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects described herein relate to receiving, from a network via at least one of multiple transmission/reception points (TRPs), a group common (GC)-downlink control information (DCI) in a first component carrier (CC) that includes a set of blocks intended for one or more UEs, and receiving, based at least in part on the GC-DCI and a subs...