ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,219, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Beamforming network architecture of N-drive-M network" was invented by Tuanjie Xue (Shanghai), Guanxi Zhang (Shanghai), Mingcui Tao (Shanghai) and Long Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first circuit includes at least one bridge, where input ends of the at least one bridge are coupled to digital channels in N analog networks, to perform digital weighting and analog on a received electrical signal; a second circuit includes at least one bridge, where output ends of the at least one bridge are coupled to M antennas, to perform digital w...