ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,146, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mediatek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"CSI acquisition for distributed MIMO" was invented by Lung-Sheng Tsai (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 determines that reference signals are transmitted from L antenna ports of a base station on reference time-frequency resources. The UE receives first RF signals at Nr1 physical antennas on first time-frequency resources. The first RF signals carries the reference signals. Nr1 and L are positive integers. Nr1 is l...