ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,576, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for single user hybrid MIMO for mmWave wireless networks" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Alphan Sahin (Westbury, N.Y.), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.) and Joseph Levy (Merrick, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to implement features in the IEEE 802.11ad+/ay protocols by utilizing combinations of analog and digital precoding (such as hybrid mmWave precoding) to enable multi-stream/multi-user transmissions. These systems and methods are also suitable for 5G wireless networks, su...