ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,615, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Selected beam and transmission beam spatial relationship" was invented by Mohamed Adel Salem (Kanata, Canada) and Keyvan Zarifi (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure enable a device to select a spatial domain filter such that a resultant listen-before-talk (LBT) sensing beam, or a subsequent transmit/receive beam, has a specific spatial relationship with a plurality of transmission beams for transmissions that are multiplexed in a space division multiplexed (SDM) manner, multiplexed in a time d...