US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Mapping reference signal resources to virtual panels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,438, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mapping reference signal resources to virtual panels" was invented by Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

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) may determine a plurality of virtual antenna panels, wherein the plurality of virtual antenna panels correspond to a plurality of groups of antenna ports and map to one or more portions of a...