ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,259, issued on July 28, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Group-based beam reporting for multi-receiver operation based on reference signal received power differences" was invented by Daniel Medina (Munich), Paolo Baracca (Munich) and Rafael Cauduro Dias De Paiva (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for group-based beam reporting (GBBR) for multi-receiver operation based on reference signal received power (RSRP) differences is provided. The method may include determining, by a first apparatus, a candidate reference signal (RS) group to be provided to at least one second appar...