ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,636, issued on June 23, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Massive MIMO systems with wireless fronthaul" was invented by Ahmed Alkhateeb (Chandler, Ariz.) and Umut Demirhan (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications network system including antenna elements and a processor coupled with the antenna elements, the processor executing instructions to perform operations including establishing a first data communication link over a first frequency band between the CPU and the first AP of a first group of APs, causing the first AP to establish a second data...