ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,673, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Group partitioning in a multi-user MIMO system" was invented by Jianhua Mo (Allen, Texas), Young Han Nam (Plano, Texas) and Ahmad AlAmmouri (Richardson, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes logically partitioning an antenna panel of a base station into multiple subpanels. The method also includes identifying multiple user groups for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) spatial multiplexing, each user group comprising one or more user equipments (UEs). The method also includes assigning the user groups to the...