ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,334, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Configuration of reference signals in wireless communication systems" was invented by Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Bo Gao (Shenzhen, China), Ke Yao (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for designing and configuring reference signals in wireless communication systems are disclosed. An example method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a wireless device to a network node, a sounding reference signal (SRS), where the SRS is determined by a first parameter and a cyclic shif...