ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,242, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Online multi-cell coordinated multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) wireless network virtualization with imperfect channel state information (CSI)" was invented by Gary Boudreau (Kanata, Canada), Juncheng Wang (Toronto), Ben Liang (Whitby, Canada), Min Dong (Whitby, Canada) and Hatem Abou-Zeid (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more Examples, an infrastructure network node (16) for providing a virtual multiple-input multiple-output. MIMO, cellular network supportin...