ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,505, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Improving precoding" was invented by Salah Eddine Hajri (Antony, France), William Hillery (Lafayette, Ind.), Filippo Tosato (Bures sur Yvette, France), Eugene Visotsky (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Frederick Vook (Schaumburg, Ill.), Rana Ahmed Salem (Munich) and Marco Maso (Issy les Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method at a network node of a communication network, comprising: receiving an uplink reference signal from a user equipment; estimating, based on the received uplink reference signal, delay information regarding a d...