ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,847, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Channel estimation technique" was invented by Gustav Almquist (Jarfalla, Sweden), Jung-Fu Cheng (Fremont, Calif.) and Stephen Grant (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing channel estimation for a radio channel between a transmitter and a receiver of a radio access network, RAN comprises the step of performing an initial channel estimation (204) of the radio channel for each of a plurality of frequency ranges (502), based on a radio signal received on the radio channel from the transmitter, the radio signal com...