H04B 7/0602
Using antenna switching
Official title: {using antenna switching (H04B7/0686 takes precedence; antenna beam directivity switching H01Q3/24)}
H04B7/0602 (Using antenna switching) appears on 2,188 US grants and 2,582 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 621
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 182 | 178 |
| 2025 | 153 | 132 |
| 2026 | 92 | 91 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Beamforming communication system with crossbar switch6 Oct 2026US 12,756,436 B2Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
- Dynamic antenna module combining6 Oct 2026US 12,756,437 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Methods and nodes to perform precoder candidate restriction for multi-antenna UE6 Oct 2026US 12,756,445 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Techniques for declaring default operating frequencies6 Oct 2026US 12,756,529 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Site safety system29 Sep 2026US 12,750,649 B2iC5ISR LLC
- Detection method and target device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313670 A1Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
- Method for communication and access point1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304152 A1TP-Link Systems Inc.
- Communication parameters in accordance with cross-antenna-module combining17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280658 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Front-end systems for improved rf communication10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269472 A1
- User equipment (ue) capabilities and light adaptation10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269893 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for closed loop data transmission295US 7,139,328 B2Motorola, Inc. · 2006
- Method and apparatus for enhancing communication reception at a wireless communication terminal281US 6,131,016 AAT&T Corp. · 2000
- Multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems with multiple transmission modes243US 6,862,271 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated · 2005
- Methods and apparatus for generating and receiving electromagnetic waves219US 10,389,419 B2AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P. · 2019
- Spectrally efficient FQPSK, FGMSK, and FQAM for enhanced performance CDMA, TDMA, GSM, OFDN, and other systems215US 6,470,055 B12002