US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Feb. 11 for "Reconfigurable massive MIMO array system for energy efficient communications" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,497, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Reconfigurable massive MIMO array system for energy efficient communications" was invented by Israfil Bahceci (Kanata, Canada) and Shady Elkamhawy (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and radio interface having a reconfigurable massive multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) array system for energy efficient communications are provided. According to one aspect, a method includes, for a beam direction, one of activating and deactivating each of a plurality of radio frequency (RF), branches based at least in part on the be...