ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,717, issued on June 23, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for reference signaling design and configuration" was invented by Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Bo Gao (Shenzhen, China), Ke Yao (Shenzhen, China), Shijia Shao (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a wireless communication method of selecting, by a wireless communication device, N resources, where N is equal to or larger than 1; and sending, by the wireless communication device to a wireless communication node, a message including a Channel State Information (CSI) report...