ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,014, issued on April 22, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Beamformer and method of operation of a beamformer for MIMO antenna system" was invented by Paul Mattheijssen (Boxtel, Netherlands), Mustafa Acar (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Lucas Maria Florentinus De Maaijer (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beamformer device for a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system and method of operating a beamformer device is described. the beamformer device includes a number of beamformer channels. Each beamformer channel includes a RF terminal, an antenna connection terminal; and a power detector h...