ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,247, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for signaling for beam management using chirp beams" was invented by Mostafa Medra (Kanata, Canada) and Mohammadhadi Baligh (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a user equipment (UE) transmits UE parameter information for generating chirp beams used by a base station to beamform a beam transmitted to the UE. The UE receives a reference signal that is beamformed using a chirp beam that is based at least in part on the UE parameter information. The UE measures the reference signal to generate f...