ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,638, issued on June 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Antenna power scaling in fronthaul lower layer split" was invented by Chenguang Lu (Sollentuna, Sweden), Yezi Huang (Taby, Sweden), Miguel Berg (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Bjorn Pohlman (Jarfalla, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (1700) for antenna power scaling in a fronthaul lower-layer split, LLS, is provided. The method is performed by a baseband unit, BBU (102, 202, 302), for assisting a Radio Unit, RU (104, 204, 304), in scaling a transmit power of one or more antennas when performing beamforming. The method includes transmit...