ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,586, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Method and a network node for muting antenna elements of an active antenna system" was invented by Andreas Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Fredrik Athley (Kullavik, Sweden), Martin Johansson (Molndal, Sweden) and Sven Petersson (Savedalen, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed in a network node of a communication system for muting antenna elements of an active antenna system. The method comprises determining, based on a priori information relating to performance of the communication system, an antenna element separation between...