ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,073, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Aperiodic reference signal measurements for multiple transmission and reception points" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques allow a user equipment (UE) to efficiently identify a trigger state that is linked to a configuration for receiving and measuring reference signals fr...