MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202518094748 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Oct. 1, for 'techniques of beamforming in reference signal (rs) transmissions.'

Inventor(s) include Niu, Huaning; Ye, Chunxuan; Zhang, Dawei; Sun, Haitong; He, Hong; Oteri, Oghenekome; Ye, Sigen; Zeng, Wei; Yang, Weidong; and Zhang, Yushu.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Techniques of beamforming in reference signal (RS) transmissions, applicable to frequency ranges including frequencies between 52.6 GHz and 71 5 GHz, are described. Such techniques may include determining a communication channel is unoccupied for an initial duration, determining a number of communication slots of the communication channel to defer for transmission, and counting one or more communication slots of the communication channel that are not in use. The techniques may include 10 determining the number of counted one or more communication slots is not equal to the determined number of communication slots of the communication channel to defer, and transmitting one or more data units based on the determination that the number of the counted one or more communication slots is not equal to the determined number of communication slots of the 15 communication channel to defer."

The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 15, 2020, under International application No.PCT/CN2020/121212.

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