ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,477, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Coordinated transmission control method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Xiangbai Liao (Wuhan, China), Yingzhuang Liu (Wuhan, China) and Jian Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coordinated transmission control method, apparatus, and system. A primary access point and a secondary access point determine whether to perform coordinated transmission through inter-cell configuration parameter sharing and based on a dual decision condition of an interference test. An anti-interference beamforming manner is determined based on a...