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> I don't see what is patentable ... Being a critic of software patents myself, and given how much this idea relies on software and mathematics (mathematics is

by lutusp 13y ago

> I don't see what is patentable ... Being a critic of software patents myself, and given how much this idea relies on software and mathematics (mathematics is definitely unpatentable), I agree that it's an issue. I suspect that the entire method is patentable even though each element taken separately isn't.

darkmighty 13y ago
Yea the novelty is essentially that he's (allegedly) managed to make MIMO work with "non-local" antennas, which is really tricky in practice due to the sub-nanosecond phase synchronization required.
- foobarqux 13y ago
  "non-local" MIMO is distributed beamforming which he didn't invent.