ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,679, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Beamforming technique using approximate channel decomposition" was invented by Heunchul Lee (Taby, Sweden), Niklas Wernersson (Kungsangen, Sweden) and Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus for beamforming techniques that use approximate channel decomposition are disclosed. According to one aspect, a wireless device is provided. The wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to use a non-constant modulus, NCM, precoder of a NCM codebook to transmit on a physical chann...