ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,415, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) for line-of-sight MIMO with a rectangular antenna array" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.), Bilal Sadiq (Southlake, Texas), Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego), Meilong Jiang (Westfield, N.J.), Renqiu Wang (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Ashwin Sampath (Skillman, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Greentown, 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,...