ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,689, issued on April 14, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems for enabling fast beam switching" was invented by Jaya Rao (Montreal), Faris Alfarhan (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Umer Salim (Vallauris, France) and Ananth Kini (Conshohocken, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products for faster beam switching in a wireless network. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive configuration information including QCL relation information for TCI ...