ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,519, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Receiver-first and UE-first beamforming in sub-terahertz communication" was invented by Jan K Ellenbeck (Gruenwald, Germany), Biljana Badic (Munich), Christian Drewes (Germering, Germany), Mikhail Wilhelm (Munich), Stefan Meyer (Munich) and Norman Goris (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving, from a remote device, a reference signal for each of one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs); responsive to the receiving, selecting a receiver (Rx) b...