ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,033, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Imbalance compensation for uplink (UL)-multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions" was invented by Lijie Zhang (Beijing), Zhiwei Wang (Beijing) and Lakshmi N. Kavuri (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can compensate for imbalances between multiple transport streams of an uplink (UL)-multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can adjust one or more signal metrics of multiple recovered transport streams of the UL-MIMO transmission th...