US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for array size invariant beamforming" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,019, issued on June 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for array size invariant beamforming" was invented by Robert Baldemair (Solna, Sweden) and Sven Petersson (Savedalen, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for transmitting a first signal x1 and a second signal x2 using a first array of antenna elements of a polarization A and a second array of antenna elements of a substantially orthogonal polarization B. The methods include transmitting x1 in a first beam generated with array size invariant beamforming, using a sub-array A1 of antenna elements from the first arr...