ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,680, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Switching between polarization and spatial multiple-input-multiple-output based on a multiband antenna" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a first indication of a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) configuration threshold that is associated with a selection between a polarization MIMO configuration...