ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,640, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MAXLINEAR INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Beamformer solicited sounding" was invented by Sigurd Schelstraete (Menlo Park, Calif.), Hossein Dehghan-Fard (Diablo, Calif.) and Debashis Dash (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations are directed to methods and systems employing a solicited sounding protocol that includes an efficient communication sequence for operating a wireless transceiver transmitting a sounding trigger to one or more beamformees via a forward channel, receiving at least one dedicated training signal from the one or more beamformees via a reverse channel ...