ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,976, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Rank control for mitigating reference signal impact with antenna sharing" was invented by Saisruthi Kotamraju (Bengaluru, India), Manav Lnu (Hyderabad, India), Ashutosh Vinod Agrawal (Bengaluru, India), Sriram Sridharan (San Diego), Brian Clarke Banister (San Diego) and Touseef Khan (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 receive an uplink reference signal configuration indicating antenna switching for transmitting an uplink reference signa...