ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,922, issued on July 21, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for AI/ML based beam management" was invented by Yu-Jen Ku (San Jose, Calif.) and Gyu Bum Kyung (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE receives, from a base station, a first monitoring configuration for monitoring an artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) model for managing a set of beams. The UE measures a first subset of the set of beams. The UE performs inference using the AI/ML model based on measurements of the first subset to determine predication values of a second subset of the set of beams. The second subse...