US Patent Issued to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS on May 5 for "Power saving mode coverage control" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,033, issued on May 5, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Power saving mode coverage control" was invented by Sanghoon Sung (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to reduce power consumption, an access node may turn off transmissions from one or more rows or columns of antennas in a mMIMO array. To help prevent the beam from overshooting (i.e., going beyond) an intended area of coverage when the access node turns off transmission by one or more rows, the access node also increases the electrical down tilt of the beam (i.e., angle of depression) to help contain the beam within its intended are...