ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,946, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Control device that improves communication efficiency in cell-free massive MIMO system composed of many antennas, control method of the same, processing device, processing method of the same, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Akio Ikami (Fujimino, Japan) and Yuu Tsukamoto (Fujimino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device that functions as a RIC in an O-RAN identifies a plurality of antennas that are expected to receive, with at least a predetermined power, a signal from each of a plurality of terminal devices, and notifies an O-DU that is ...