ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,752, issued on June 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and network device for link adaptation" was invented by Rui Fan (Beijing), Huaisong Zhu (Beijing) and Chi Chuen Yuen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a network device for link adaptation includes estimating a probability distribution of downlink Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio, SINR, for a terminal device based at least on one or more Acknowledgement, ACK, or Negative Acknowledgement, NACK, messages from the terminal device. A Modulation and Coding Scheme, MCS, for downlink transmission to the terminal device...