ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,617, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Nearfield-based channel state feedback for multi-panel codebooks" was invented by Hyojin Lee (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Yi Huang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit channel state information to a network entity, wherein the channel state information indicates a first precoding matrix index for a first antenna panel of a set of antenna panels of the network entity and a second precoding matrix index ...