ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,341, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for beamforming feedback reduction in wireless local area networks" was invented by Ziming He (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Fei Tong (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second apparatus configured to communicate with a first apparatus in a wireless local area network (WLAN), including: a transceiver; and at least one processor configured to: receive, using the transceiver, a null data packet (NDP) from the first apparatus, generate a channel estimate based on the NDP, decompose the channel estima...