ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,999, issued on June 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Type-II port-selection codebook generation" was invented by Ahmed Hindy (Aurora, Ill.), Udar Mittal (Rolling Meadows, Ill.) and Tyler Brown (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for Type-II port-selection codebook generation. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that receives a set of CSI-RS. The processor identifies a set of CSI-RS ports based on the set of CSI-RS. The processor selects a subset of CSI-RS ports from the identified set of CSI-RS ports based on a free selection ...