ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,440, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for mapping sounding reference signals to resources" was invented by Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration indicating at least two resource allocations for each SRS resource of an SRS resource set, and each of the at least two resource allocations may include a time resource allocation and a frequency resource allocation. The UE may ...