US Patent Issued to Mediatek on Dec. 2 for "Downlink framework for distributed MIMO receivers" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,592, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mediatek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Downlink framework for distributed MIMO receivers" was invented by Lung-Sheng Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Pei-Kai Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives Nr1 RF signals at Nr1 antennas on a first time-frequency resource. The Nr1 RF signals carrying L layers of data generated at a base station. Nr1 and L are positive integers. L is greater than Nr1. The UE receives Nr2 RF signals at the Nr2 antennas on a second...