ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,255, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network controller transmits to a communication device a first control message comprising a first indicator indicating a plurality of target elements, wherein the plurality of target elements instruct the communication device to share a plurality of quasi co-location (QCL) information or a plurality of spatial filter informatio...