ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,245, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for transmitting repetitions in wireless communications" was invented by Yi Huang (San Diego), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to generating multiple repetitions of an uplink signal for transmission, and transmitting the multiple repetitions of the uplink signal, wherein each repetition of the multiple repetitions includes a set of phase tracking reference signals (PTRSs). Other aspects relate to receiving the repetitions, and using the PTRSs to determi...