US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 12 for "Orbital angular momentum multiplexing based on a common factor between quantities of transmit and receive antenna subarrays" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,516, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Orbital angular momentum multiplexing based on a common factor between quantities of transmit and receive antenna subarrays" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Naga Bhushan (San Diego) and Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications systems may support orbital angular momentum (OAM) communications. A transmitting network node may generate signals for transmission via a first circular antenna array that includes a first quantity of...