US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 29 for "Coordinated beamforming from client devices" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,130, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Coordinated beamforming from client devices" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and John M. Swartz (Lithia, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for beamforming from wireless stations (STAs) are disclosed. These techniques include identifying a plurality of STAs for a beamforming group, for transmission to a wireless access point (AP). The techniques further include receiving, at the AP, first data transmitted from each of the plurality of STAs in th...