ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,436, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for user equipment-anticipated common beam switching" was invented by Qian Cheng (Naperville, Ill.), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Jialing Liu (Palatine, Ill.) and Zhigang Rong (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for user equipment-anticipated common beam switching includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a set of reference signals from a network controller; sending, by the UE, a measurement report to the network controller based on a first reference signal of the received reference signals; deter...