US Patent Issued to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS on July 28 for "Beam switching controlled by distributed unit" (German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,158, issued on July 28, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Beam switching controlled by distributed unit" was invented by Subramanya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India), Ingo Viering (Munich) and Richard Waldhauser (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method comprising transmitting a beam switch request from a first distributed unit to a second distributed unit. The first distributed unit then receives a beam switch acknowledgment from the second distributed unit. The first distributed unit transmits a beam switch notification to a central unit, wherein the first distributed unit and the ...