ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,019, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods, base band unit system and radio unit of a distributed base station system adapted for beamforming" was invented by Chenguang Lu (Sollentuna, Sweden), Yezi Huang (Taby, Sweden) and Miguel Berg (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method performed by a Baseband unit, BBU, system comprising a distributed base station system that comprises a BBU, a first radio unit, RU, connected to the BBU over a fronthaul link, and a second RU connected to the first RU over an RU link. The method comprises determining a fir...