ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,667, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Transmitter beamforming at base station with partial channel information and UE feedback" was invented by Hongbing Cheng (San Jose, Calif.) and Federico Penna (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of obtaining a beamforming matrix, the method comprising inputting PMI feedback from a user equipment (UE), inputting partial channel estimation derived from sounding reference signal (SRS) switching, and composing a precoding matrix using the PMI feedback and partial channel estimation."
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