ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,723, issued on April 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Layer reduction criteria" was invented by Sina Maleki (Malmo, Sweden) and Andres Reial (Lomma, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for layer reduction criteria. In one embodiment, a network node is configured to determine a number of multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, layers for a wireless device, WD, the determined number of MIMO layers being adjusted as compared to a maximum number of MIMO layers for the wireless device based at least in part on at least one parameter associated with at least one o...