ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,581, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Orbital angular momentum based codebook for access communications" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Feedback based codebooks for reducing or eliminating interference between orbital angular momentum (OAM) based backhaul communications between a first network node and a second network node and access communications between the first network node and a user equipment (UE) are ...