US 12,438,284 B2
Apparatus, system and method of communicating a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission with polarization
Ronen Kronfeld, Shoham (IL); Ofir Degani, Nes Ammim (IL); and Ashoke Ravi, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/356,210.
Prior Publication US 2022/0416444 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 21/24 (2006.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01)
CPC H01Q 21/24 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0413 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a plurality of dual-polarization Radio Heads (RHs), a dual-polarization RH of the plurality of dual-polarization RHs comprising:
a transceiver;
a plurality of dual-polarization antenna elements, a dual-polarization antenna element of the plurality of dual-polarization antenna elements comprising a vertical-polarization port and a horizontal-polarization port; and
a plurality of dual-polarization switches, wherein a dual-polarization switch of the plurality of dual-polarization switches is to route a vertical-polarization transmission between the transceiver and the vertical-polarization port of the dual-polarization antenna element, and to route a horizontal-polarization transmission between the transceiver and the horizontal-polarization port of the dual-polarization antenna element; and
a baseband controller configured to control the plurality of dual-polarization RHs to communicate a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission comprising a first spatial stream communicated with horizontal-polarization via a first dual-polarization RH, and a second spatial stream communicated with vertical-polarization via a second dual-polarization RH.