ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,649, issued on July 7, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"User selection for MU-MIMO" was invented by Ulf Gustavsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Amirashkan Farsaei (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Alex Alvarado (Den Bosch, Netherlands) and Frans M.J. Willems (Geldrop, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed of selecting users for multi user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication from an initial set of potential users. The method comprises repeating the following steps in successive iterations until a stopping criterion is met: determining a channel correlation metric for ea...