ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,351, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rearden LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for exploiting inter-cell multiplexing gain in wireless cellular systems via distributed input distributed output technology" was invented by Antonio Forenza (San Francisco) and Stephen G. Perlman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for exploiting inter-cell interference to achieve multiplexing gain in a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions ("MU-MAS"). For example, a MU-MAS of one embodiment comprises a wireless cellular network with multiple distributed antenn...