ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,035, issued on May 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method for beam switching in mmWave systems" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for managing beam switching at a higher subcarrier spacing (SCS) at millimeter wavelength (mmWave) frequencies in a 5G wireless communications system. A user equipment (UE) transmits a beam switching gap (BS...