ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,799, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Radio beam configuration" was invented by Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark), Christian Rom (Aalborg, Denmark), Frederick Vook (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product for: selecting (405), based on at least one first criterion, a set of antenna elements, determining (410) a radio beam codebook comprising a plurality of radio beam configurations for the set of antenna elements, determining (415) a radiation patte...