ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,153, issued on Feb. 18.

"Practical design techniques for cellular and WiFi co-enabled systems" was invented by Yiming Huo (Victoria, Canada), Xiaodai Dong (Victoria, Canada), Wei Xu (Nanjing, China) and Marvin Yuen (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for distributed phased array multiple input multiple output (DPA-MIMO) communications is disclosed. The system includes beamforming (BF) modules. Each BF module comprises a beamforming antenna, a downconverter that downconverts a beamformed antenna radio frequency signal to an intermediate frequency signal, and an upconverter that upconverts an intermediate frequency ...