ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,041, issued on July 29, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Predictive sectorized average power control" was invented by Amr El-Keyi (Kanata, Canada), Torbjorn Wigren (Uppsala, Sweden) and Shiguang Guo (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and network node for predictive sectorized average power control. A method includes determining a beamforming gain for each of a plurality of directions. The method also includes determining a total power at each of a plurality of times within a window for each of the plurality of spatial directions, the total power being based at least in part on ...