ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,432, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sensor aided beam management" was invented by Mehul Soman (San Jose, Calif.), Rashmi Kulkarni (Redwood City, Calif.) and Justin McGloin (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for determining positional and activity information of a mobile device in synchronization with the wake-up period of the mobile device to perform antenna beam management and adjusting the wake-up period based on the positional and activity information of the mobile device. A mobile device comprises: a memory; at least one sensor for detecting data: a processor commun...