ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,640, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment to object association beam management" was invented by Yucheng Dai (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may receive at least one of a sensing signal for an object associated with the UE or of a channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) from a network node. The UE may transmit an indication of a broken association with the object based on at least one of the sensing signal or the CSI-RS. The UE may measure a strength of at least one of the sensing signal or the C...