ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,886, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Beamforming and interference mitigation techniques for massive MIMO uplink and downlink in O-RAN 7-2 compatible base stations" was invented by Neelam Chandwani (Portland, Ore.), Thushara Hewavithana (Tempe, Great Britain), Peng Lu (Elk Grove, Calif.), Bishwarup Mondal (San Ramon, Calif.), Avik Sengupta (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Beadle (Tustin, Calif.) and Ranjit Cavatur (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use in an O-RAN base station includes processing circuitry. To configure the O-RAN base station for signal processing i...