diff --git a/grpc.changes b/grpc.changes
index 85c3aeb..f994c03 100644
--- a/grpc.changes
+++ b/grpc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 16 14:28:23 UTC 2026 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Added patch:
+  * grpc_missing_string_include.patch
+    + fix missing include with newer abseil-cpp
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Nov  8 17:08:46 UTC 2025 - Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/grpc.spec b/grpc.spec
index 29c35ea..5a2fec4 100644
--- a/grpc.spec
+++ b/grpc.spec
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Patch3:         return-values.patch
 Patch4:         telemetry.patch
 Patch14:        ARM-Unaligned-access-fixes.patch
 Patch15:        Fix-compilation-on-RHEL-7-ppc64le-gcc-4.8.patch
+Patch16:        grpc_missing_string_include.patch
 BuildRequires:  abseil-cpp-devel >= 20240722
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ This subpackage contains source code of the gRPC reference implementation.
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1
+
 find "." -type f -exec grep -l '/usr/bin/python' {} + |
 	xargs -r perl -i -lpe \
 	's{#! ?/usr/bin/python\S*}{#!/usr/bin/python3}g;'
diff --git a/grpc_missing_string_include.patch b/grpc_missing_string_include.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..688068d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grpc_missing_string_include.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- grpc-1.76.0/include/grpc/event_engine/memory_request.h	2026-01-16 15:12:38.339265864 +0100
++++ grpc-1.76.0/include/grpc/event_engine/memory_request.h	2026-01-16 15:13:00.838065461 +0100
+@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
+ #include <grpc/support/port_platform.h>
+ #include <stddef.h>
+ 
++#include <string>
++
+ #include "absl/strings/string_view.h"
+ 
+ namespace grpc_event_engine {