ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,155, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Method and system for signaling transmission layers for single user and multi user MIMO" was invented by Hua Xu (Ottawa), Yongkang Jia (Ottawa), Zhijun Cai (Ashburn, Va.), Youn Hyoung Heo (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Mark Earnshaw (Kanata, Canada), Mo-Han Fong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sean Michael McBeath (Keller, Texas) and Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a ...