ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,299, issued on April 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Inter-point parameter signaling in coordinated multi-point (CoMP) networks" was invented by Runhua Chen (Plano, Texas), Ralf M. Bendlin (Plano, Texas) and Anthony E. Ekpenyong (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission point (TP) comprises a processor configured to generate a transmission parameter related to a transmission property of the TP, wherein the transmission parameter comprises at least one of a transmission rank, a beamforming matrix, a transmission power, and an on/off status, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to ...