US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 8 for "Reducing energy consumption at a base station" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,910, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Reducing energy consumption at a base station" was invented by Pal Frenger (Linkoping, Sweden), Jonas Bengtsson (Haljarp, Sweden), Mikkel Myhre (Jarfalla, Sweden) and Peter T. Dahlqvist (Akersberga, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing energy consumption for a base station providing multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, communication on a mixed-mode carrier supporting at least two RATs is provided by determining sleep mode independently for the at least two RATs and performing port merging for at least one of the two RA...