ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,269, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"MIMO systems" was invented by Anas Al Rawi (London), Arman Shojaeifard (London) and Trevor Linney (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a plurality of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signals for transmission over a plurality of communication channels can include precoding the plurality of signals prior to transmission, the precoding incorporating channel state information in relation to the plurality of communication channels, the precoding further incorporating: a priority ranking of a first channel of the plurality of com...