ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,941, issued on May 6, was assigned to Mavenir Networks Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Synchronized downlink and uplink multi-user MIMO candidate selection in massive-MIMO system" was invented by Manoharan Ramalingam (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synchronized selection of user equipments (UEs) for both downlink (DL) Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) operation and uplink (UL) MU-MIMO operation includes: applying a common set of selection criteria for selecting a common pool of UE candidates for both DL and UL MU-MIMO operations, wherein the common set of selection criteria are applied in St...