ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,502, issued on March 17, was assigned to ASUSTek Computer Inc. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for beam selection and reporting in a wireless communication system" was invented by Yi-Hsuan Kung (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Hsuan Guo (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chun-Wei Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for beam selection and reporting in a wireless communication system to enhance latency reduction for Downlink (DL)/Uplink (UL) beam selection and activation. A User Equipment (UE) can monitor Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) on multiple Control Res...