US Patent Issued to Intel on July 28 for "Configurable hybrid beamforming" (Arizona, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,101, issued on July 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configurable hybrid beamforming" was invented by Gregory Chance (Chandler, Ariz.), Ashoke Ravi (Portland, Ore.), Benjamin Jann (Portland, Ore.) and Paolo Madoglio (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device can include an antenna array and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna array to segment antenna elements of an antenna array into a configurable plurality of groups of antenna elements. The processing circuitry can also activate analog beamforming for at least one group of the plurality of groups of antenna element...