ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,174, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods, UE and APU for handling data transmissions in a distributed MIMO system" was invented by Pal Frenger (Linkoping, Sweden), Erik G. Larsson (Linkoping, Sweden), Emil Bjornson (Hagersten, Sweden) and Martin Hessler (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by an APU (103) for handling data transmissions in a distributed massive MIMO communication system (100). The APU (103) is comprised in one of at least two non-co-located groups of APUs (103) in the system (100). The APU (103...