ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,516, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reference signal configurations for uplink beam selection" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to support determination of an uplink beam for uplink transmissions. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with multiple sets of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources that may be used for uplink transmissions from the UE. In some...