US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Decoding paging messages based on multiple beams" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,011, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Decoding paging messages based on multiple beams" was invented by Hongbo Yan (Vista, Calif.), Amir Farajidana (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dietmar Gradl (Ebersberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a paging mechanism. In an example, a network can transmit SSBs periodically on multiple SSB beams. A UE can receive, during a DRX cycle, an SSB per detected SSB beam and perform SSB-based measurements. Based on these measurements, the UE can perform PDCCH monitoring and PDSCH decoding on at least two beams. The PDCCH monitoring can ...