ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,266, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for codebook design for closed loop operation" was invented by Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego), Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.), Renqiu Wang (San Diego), Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Naga Bhushan (San Diego), Pinar Sen (San Diego), Seyong Park (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego) and Tingfang Ji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are describe...