ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,678, issued on May 5, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Beam management for antenna array" was invented by Jinfeng Du (West Windsor, N.J.) and Silvio Mandelli (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: determine a power angular spectrum characterizing a power distribution associated with an antenna array in a two-dimensional angular range, determine a beam aiming direction estimation a...