ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,314, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Methods and apparatus for directional channel sensing for beamformed transmissions" was invented by Narayan Prasad (Westfield, N.J.), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), George Calcev (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Qian Cheng (Naperville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a wireless communication device divides a plurality of transmission beams into one or more groups of transmission beams including at least a first group of transmission beams. The wireless communication device determines a first sensing beam re...