ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,281, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method and computer program for precoding" was invented by Antti Arvola (Oulu, Finland), Bikshapathi Gouda (Oulu, Finland), Italo Atzeni (Oulu, Finland), Antti Tolli (Oulu, Finland), Juha Pekka Karjalainen (Oulu, Finland), Sami-Jukka Hakola (Oulu, Finland), Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland) and Youngsoo Yuk (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising means for for, at a user equipment configured to transmit precoded signals using receive beamformers as transmit precoders over at least one of a plur...