ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,264, issued on March 24, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for transmitting and receiving data in cooperative communication system, and cooperative communication method" was invented by Kap-Seok Chang (Daejeon, South Korea), Woo-Yong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyeongpyo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyoung-Jin Kwon (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and Hyun-Kyu Chung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method of a source node in a cooperative communication system includes: performing a beamforming to a relay node; transmitting data to th...