ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,118, issued on Sept. 9.

"Guard period optimization for multi-antenna user equipments" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for selecting an antenna configuration for transmitting in a wireless communication network. An example technique may include determining that a front guard period is not scheduled between a scheduled uplink transmission and a scheduled sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission, and based on the dete...