ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,576, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Joint channel state information for virtual user equipment" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Stauffer (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station (BS) communicatively connected to a group including a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE can implement a method. The method includes determining (316 or 416), by processing hardware of the base station, a channel state information (CSI) process configuration for the group. The method also includes transmitting (318) a control signal including the CSI process co...