ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,004, issued on June 17, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Sounding reference signal beamformer enhancement with timing correction" was invented by Raghavendra Madanahally Ramakrishna (Bangalore, India), Ronak Bharatkumar Lalwala (Bangalore, India), Venkatesh Hampasandra Muralidhara (Bangalore, India) and Anurag Gupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating beamforming weights, the method including receiving a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) at an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Distributed Unit (O-DU); performing channel estimation of the SRS received; computing a time domain response o...