US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 13 for "Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in multi antenna system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,242, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in multi antenna system" was invented by Byung-Ki Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Mi-Yeon Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for reducing the power consumption of a Base Station (BS) in a multi antenna system are provided. The method for reducing the power consumption of the BS includes identifying an amount of resources being in use for communication, determining whether to convert at least one Radio Frequency (RF) unit into a power saving m...