ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,764, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for control signaling for beam searching latency reduction" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yeong-Sun Hwang (Germering, Germany), Yuchul Kim (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for control signaling for beam searching latency reduc...