ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,257, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment to user equipment beam management" was invented by Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego) and Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit signaling regarding a UE-to-UE beam maintenance (BM) procedure supported by the UE. The UE may perform the UE-to-UE BM procedure based at least in part on the signaling. Numerous other aspects are described."

The patent was filed on Jan. 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/410,6...