H04B 7/0868
Hybrid systems, i.e. switching and combining
Official title: {Hybrid systems, i.e. switching and combining}
H04B7/0868 (Hybrid systems, i.e. switching and combining) appears on 4,745 US grants and 6,182 published applications in this corpus.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for beam management in communication system6 Oct 2026US 12,756,450 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Beam-based spatial adaptation with asymmetric antenna panels29 Sep 2026US 12,750,120 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Group-based beam management29 Sep 2026US 12,750,124 B2
- Terminal, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system for controlling reception of a synchronization signal block29 Sep 2026US 12,750,691 B2Ntt Docomo, Inc.
- Techniques for throughput-constrained beam selection with self-correction and virtual serving beam tracking15 Sep 2026US 12,739,006 B2QUALCOMM Incorportated
- Method and apparatus for beam management in communication system having extra-large scale multiple input and multiple output8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312631 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- Facilitating ue-centric procedures8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312669 A1Nokia Technologies Oy
- Beam failure recovery for single dci-based m-trp urllc transmissions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312670 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Dynamic precoder groupings8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312767 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Inter-Band Carrier Aggregation Enhancements8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312776 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Intelligent backhaul radio and antenna system311US 8,467,363 B2CBF Networks, Inc. · 2013
- Channels estimation for multiple input—multiple output, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system227US 6,850,481 B2Nortel Networks Limited · 2005
- Multi-channel digital transceiver and method218US 5,579,341 AMotorola, Inc. · 1996
- Distributed antenna communications system216US 8,010,116 B2LGC Wireless, Inc. · 2011
- Method and apparatus for utilizing a directional beam antenna in a wireless transmit/receive unit191US 7,460,834 B2InterDigital Technology Corporation · 2008