ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,517, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mediatek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Port mapping between input ports and output ports of RCFT devices for DL transmission" was invented by Lung-Sheng Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first repeater obtains a second set of MT baseband signals, with each baseband signal in the second set corresponding to one of the MT transmission antennas, and MT being a positive integer. The first repeater divides the MT transmission antennas into groups, with each group containing a predetermined number of antennas not exceeding NR, and NR being the number of reception antennas at a UE and a ...