ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,920, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Counting active reference signals for a joint channel state information report" was invented by Fang Yuan (Beijing), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a capability report that includes an indication of a maximum number of reference signal resources within a transmission t...