ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,171, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and systems for reducing fronthaul bandwidth in a wireless communication system" was invented by Satya Kumar Vankayala (Bangalore, India), Gaurav Potnis (Bangalore, India) and Satya Venkata Umakishore Godavarti (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides methods and systems for reduc...