ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,042, issued on March 11, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Preparing CSI using a set of zero amplitude parameters" was invented by Udar Mittal (Rolling Meadows, Ill.), Tyler Brown (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Khalid Zeineddine (Evanston, Ill.) and Jiho Song (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for preparing CSI. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory with instructions executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to determine a total number of non-zero coefficients associated with a CSI codebook over a set of transmission layers and encode an indicat...