ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,397, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Data transfer interface for in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) data" was invented by Sameer Madhav Gandhi (Karnataka, India), Praveen Ghanashyam Shekokar (Karnataka, India), Subramanian Anantharaman Chandrasekarapuram (Karnataka, India) and Prasenjit Bhowmik (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a radio access network (RAN) includes a radio unit (RU) configured to receive first in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) data represented in a first domain from a distributed unit (DU). The system includes a beamformer associated with the RU. The beamforme...