ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,262, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for calibration in distributed mimo networks" was invented by Jianzhong Zhang (Dallas), Yang Li (Plano, Texas), Gilwon Lee (Dallas), Yeqing Hu (Allen, Texas), Shadi Abu-Surra (Plano, Texas) and Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Calibration in distributed multiple input multiple output (MIMO) networks. A method performed by a first base station (BS) includes receiving a first uplink (UL) reference signal (RS) and determining, based on the first UL RS and a second UL RS, a first phase offset f...