ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,742, issued on April 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and system for downlink out-of-band interference mitigation" was invented by Nikolaos Kolomvakis (Sodertalje, Sweden), Majid Bavand (Ottawa) and Israfil Bahceci (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus are disclosed for downlink out-of-band interference mitigation. In one embodiment, a network node is configured to perform out-of-band (OOB) null steering and in-band null steering toward at least one direction; and use a constant amplitude precoder to align at least one radiation pattern associated...