ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,994, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Measurement and scheduling of intra-frequency and inter-frequency reference signals" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Mountain View, Calif.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to measuring and scheduling reference signals. A user equipment (UE) detects reference signals having overlapping resources, and determines a context associated with the reference signals. A Layer 1 (L1) measurement is then performed of at least one reference signal according to a prioritization associated with t...