ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,653, issued on June 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and devices for processing uplink signals" was invented by Chenguang Lu (Sollentuna, Sweden), Miguel Berg (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Yezi Huang (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for processing uplink signals. A method is performed by a RRU. The method comprises obtaining uplink signals as received from wireless devices at antenna elements of an antenna array of the RRU, each wireless device being associated with its own at least one user layer. The method comprises capturing energy per user layer ...