ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,422, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Point to multipoint transmission using a multi-antenna system" was invented by Volker Pauli (Ansbach, Germany) and Fasil Berhanu Tesema (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present subject matter relates to an apparatus. The apparatus includes circuitry being configured for encoding sets of data elements into corresponding larger sets of encoding elements using a rateless erasure coding method, for each subset of one or more encoding elements of the sets of encoding elements determining a set of one or more beams of a multi-antenna system; and trans...