ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,651, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Codebook subset design for uplink data transmission" was invented by Sigen Ye (San Diego), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Ankit Bhamri (Haar, Germany), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE), a base station, a baseband processor or other network device can determine a codebook subset configuration of a plurality of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers for antenna ports of a codebook. The codebook subset configuration can include a nested structure ...