US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Dec. 9 for "MRC combined distributed phased antenna arrays" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,591, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"MRC combined distributed phased antenna arrays" was invented by Peter Jakobsson (Lund, Sweden) and Magnus Nilsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-step coherent combination of signals received by multiple distributed phased antenna arrays to increase the coverage area of the distributed phase antenna arrays while decreasing the loss of such antennas, particularly in sections of a service area that traditionally are not covered by such antennas. More particularly, the solution presented herein coherently combines, in a multi-...