ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,780, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Channel estimation with varying numbers of transmit layers" was invented by Hamidreza Farmanbar (Ottawa), Gwenael Poitau (Montreal) and Evgeny Paltin (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can produce a rough channel estimate that comprises a first array of a first number of dimensions, wherein a communications channel enables broadband cellular communications, and wherein the communications channel is configured for multiple-input multiple-output transmission. The system can transform the first array into second arrays, wherein respective secon...