ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,477, issued on June 30, was assigned to INSTITUT MINES TELECOM (Palaiseau, France).
"Method and system for coordinated multi-point transmission coordination" was invented by Ghaya Rekaya Ben-Othman (Antony, France), Aymen Askri (Palaiseau, France) and Chao Zhang (Orsay, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A priority-resource-limited CoMP scheme is proposed based on a coordination priority index of users which comes into play to perform cooperation set selection and resource allocation in small cell networks. The CoMP control unit (CCU) configures and then transmits to the donor (serving) Transmission/Reception Point (TRP) the coord...