ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,318, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatuses and methods for compensation of transmitter distortions" was invented by Lukasz Skomra (Wroclaw, Poland) and Bjorn Jelonnek (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide a method for compensating transmitter distortions. The compensation can be performed with tapered antenna elements. The method comprises determining a first subset of antennas of an antenna array, wherein the first subset of antennas operate without a power headroom in relation to one or more thresholds; determining a second subset of an...