ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,650, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PANTECH Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for transmitting muting information, and apparatus and method for acquiring channel state using same" was invented by Sungjun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Kyoungmin Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungjin Suh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for transmitting muting information in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus and a method for acquiring channel state using same. In an exemplary embodiment, muting information includes: a first data field, havin...