ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,691, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for channel quality reporting" was invented by Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, Texas) and Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for channel quality reporting are provided. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration about a channel state information (CSI) report. The configuration includes information about Ngless than1 groups of CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) ports. The method further includes, based on the configuration, measuring the Ng groups ...