US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 10 for "Reduced overhead beam sweep for initial access" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,195, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reduced overhead beam sweep for initial access" was invented by Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment (UE) may receive a system information message from a base station indicating a beam sweeping procedure supported by the base station. Based on the system information message, the UE may receive, as part of the indicated beam sweep...