ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,660, issued on March 25, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS ANDTELECOMMUNICATIONS (China).

"Asymmetric massive MIMO channel estimation method based on co-prime array" was invented by Jun Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Jiacheng Lu (Jiangsu, China), Shu Cai (Jiangsu, China), Hairong Wang (Jiangsu, China), Wenjun Lv (Jiangsu, China) and Hongbo Zhu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downlink channel estimation method based on a co-prime array in asymmetric massive MIMO architecture is provided. First, an uplink and downlink asymmetric receiving and transmitting system model based on a co-prime array is established, and a...