ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,182, issued on June 30, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Beam alignment in an apparatus" was invented by Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark), Christian Rom (Aalborg, Denmark), Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark) and Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, which comprises at least one antenna array comprising a plurality of array elements having cross-polarized coupled branches, is configured to adjust at least its uplink beam steering direction by measuring (301), while transmitting a comb...