ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,502, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MEDIATEK Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and user equipment for determining precoder of MIMO system" was invented by Chien-Yi Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Jiann-Ching Guey (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Cheng-Rung Tsai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Wei-Yen Wong (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and UE are provided for determining precoder of MIMO system. In particular, a BS can transmit at least one CSI-RS to the UE. The UE can receive the at least one CSI-RS, and estimate at least one covariance matrix of at least one downlink channel matrix according to the at least one CSI-RS at different time...