ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,177, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Scheduling multi-user multiple-input multiple-output transmissions to a co-scheduled set of user equipment from an antenna array comprising multiple panels" was invented by Wenjun Li (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Meilong Jiang (Westfield, N.J.), Vishnu Kaimal (Princeton, N.J.) and Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, at a network entity, for scheduling multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) transmissions to a co-scheduled set of user equipment (UEs) from an antenna array comprising multiple panels is disclosed. The ...