ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,178, issued on July 28, was assigned to MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Corp. (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada).

"System and method for distributed beamforming" was invented by Jaafar Cherkaoui (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada), Amir Osseiran (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada) and Vladimir Glavac (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The terminal device receives configuration information sent by a network device, the configuration information being used for indicating one or more conditions for the terminal device to report random...