ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,597, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Distributed coordinated downlink precoding for multi-cell MIMO wireless network virtualization" was invented by Gary Boudreau (Kanata, Canada), Juncheng Wang (Toronto), Ben Liang (Whitby, Canada), Min Dong (Whitby, Canada) and Hatem Abou-Zeid (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and network node for distributed coordinated downlink precoding for multi-cell multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless network virtualization are disclosed. According to one aspect, a network node is configured to, in each of a plurality of ...