ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,496, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink composite beam synthesis" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.).

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 transmit sounding reference signals (SRSs) on a plurality of beams to a base station using a set of SRS resources indicated by the base station. The UE may receive, from the base station, an SRS resource indicator indicating one or more SRS resources of the set of SR...