ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,795, issued on July 15, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Bi-dimensional steering matrix alignment at beamformer" was invented by Sayak Roy (Kolkata, India), Ankit Sethi (Pune, India) and Sudhir Srinivasa (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter, including: a plurality of antennas; and a controller configured to: receive a first steering matrix for a first feedback tone; receive a second steering matrix for a second feedback tone; estimate an ideal second steering matrix including: estimating a set of random phasors applied to the columns of the second feedback matrix; and estimating a set of row-d...