ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,617, issued on March 17, was assigned to HFCL Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"Systems and methods for efficient time multiplexed digital beamforming" was invented by Prasad Venkatesh Bhatt (Bangalore, India), Santanu Bhattacharyya (Bangalore, India) and Saurabh Hota (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for efficient time multiplexed digital beamforming in a network are described. In particular, the system (for example, a radio unit) receives a C-plane packet from a fronthaul interface and stores corresponding control information of the C-plane packet at a scheduler, stores beam weight information in one or ...