US Patent Issued to Parallel Wireless on March 4 for "Compression of channel estimates" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,377, issued on March 4, was assigned to Parallel Wireless Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Compression of channel estimates" was invented by Praneet Chivate (Nashua, N.H.) and Juwendo Denis (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for port reduction, comprising: calculating, at a distributed unit (DU), beamforming weights based on received DMRS channel estimates; sending the calculated beamforming weights to a radio unit (RU); applying, at the RU, port reduction to DMRS symbols based on the calculated beamforming weights; compressing IQ data and received DMRS symbol data to compensate for an underlying ban...