ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,914, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel reciprocity for a multi-panel base station" was invented by Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego) and Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to communication using a multi-panel base station. In an aspect, a base s...