ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,445, issued on May 12, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"SRS sending method and apparatus, SRS receiving method and apparatus, and SRS configuration method and apparatus" was invented by Yuan Shi (Dongguan, China), Rakesh Tamrakar (Dongguan, China) and Yang Song (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) sending method and apparatus, an SRS receiving method and apparatus, and an SRS configuration method and apparatus, are provided. The SRS sending method includes: sending an SRS in a partial frequency hopping manner on a complete bandwidth corresponding to R O...