ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,313, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and transmitter for analog beam steering" was invented by Leonard Rexberg (Hasselby, Sweden), Orjan Renstrom (Spanga, Sweden) and Sten Wallin (Enskede, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transmitter configured for analog beam steering, the transmitter comprising a plurality of antenna branches, each having an antenna (326). The transmitter comprises, at each of the antenna branches, a signal splitter (308) for splitting an analog radio signal into a number of beam signals, the number of beam signals equals a number ...