ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,058, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Channel measurement method and apparatus" was invented by Bo Fan (Chengdu, China), Lei Chen (Shenzhen, China), Xi Zhang (Chengdu, China), Shitong Yuan (Chengdu, China) and Fengwei Liu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a channel measurement method and apparatus. A network device sends downlink signaling, to indicate or activate a beam. A terminal device determines the beam indicated or activated by using the downlink signaling, determines, based on an association relationship between a beam and a channel me...