ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,945, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TEKO TELEKOM S.R.L. (Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy).

"Reconfigurable beamformer, particularly for 5G NR" was invented by David Smith (Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy), Andrea Minieri (Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy), Massimo Notargiacomo (Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy) and Davide Durante (Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable beamformer comprising a digital signal processor; an ADC/DAC operatively connected to the digital signal processor; an analogue signal processor operatively connected to the ADC/DAC; an antenna array operatively connected to said...