ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,500, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"In-network distributed processing for precoding and linear detection" was invented by Ori Shental (Marlboro, N.J.), Ashwin Sampath (Skillman, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first node may transmit a set of first values indicating a first estimated value at the first node and a first reliability value associated with the first estimated value, the set of first values being based at...