US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 28 for "Joint beamforming weights and IQ data scaling approach for improved fronthaul" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,490, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Joint beamforming weights and IQ data scaling approach for improved fronthaul" was invented by Chenguang Lu (Sollentuna, Sweden), Yezi Huang (Taby, Sweden), Bjorn Pohlman (Jarfalla, Sweden) and Miguel Berg (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method 1700 is performed by a baseband unit (BBU) 104 for scaling beamforming weights (BFWs) to assist a Radio Unit (RU) 102 with beamforming. The method includes obtaining 1702 a plurality of frequency-domain BFWs for beamforming of a number of downlink data streams in frequency-domain t...