ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,661, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Indicating uplink beams and sounding reference signal resources" was invented by Dalin Zhu (Allen, Texas), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, Texas), Emad Nader Farag (Flanders, N.J.) and Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for indicating uplink (UL) beams and sounding reference signal (SRS) resources. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, in a downlink control information (DCI) format, (i) a SRS resource indicator (SRI) and (ii) a transmission configuration indication (TCI...