ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,800, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus and method to perform a beam alignment procedure based on an estimated time-of-stay" was invented by Fuad Abinader (Massy, France), Christian Rom (Aalborg, Denmark) and Istvan Zsolt Kovacs (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for intelligently managing beam alignment. The apparatus receives one or more estimation models, which are used to determine an estimated time-of-stay of an active antenna panel. The time-of-stay represents the duration for which the panel is active for transmission or reception. Based ...