ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,941, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method for wireless communication by remotely controlling beamforming" was invented by Kota Ito (Tokyo), Mizuki Suga (Tokyo), Takuto Arai (Tokyo), Yushi Shirato (Tokyo), Daisei Uchida (Tokyo), Naoki Kita (Tokyo) and Takeshi Onizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication method wherein among a signal processing function and a communication function provided by a wireless communication device, a centralized unit having a signal processing function transmits an optical signal having a form corresponding to a downstream radio signal to be a transmission targ...