ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,642, issued on June 10, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago).

"System and method for coordinated beamforming among discrete communication devices" was invented by John Dalton Williams (Huntsville, Ala.), Ted R. Dabrowski (Huntsville, Ala.) and Jae H. Kim (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system and method include a group of multiple, discrete communication devices, each including an isotropic antenna element and a controller. A role of a first communication device is master device, and the role of the other communication devices is follower device. The controller of the master device determines r...