ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,258, issued on Feb. 17.
"Beam grid optimization" was invented by Xiaomao Mao (Paris), Muhammad Majid Butt (Naperville, Ill.) and Ingo Viering (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: obtaining information representative of a current network state; selecting a beam grid in a plurality of candidate beam grids supported by a network device based on the current network state and current beam utility function values determined for one or more beams in the plurality of candidate beam grids; and configuring the network device with the selected beam grid."
The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/544...