ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,660, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam selection discovery window monitoring" was invented by Iyab Issam Sakhnini (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may perform cell discovery in a window by monitoring for and receiving synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) from a network entity. The UE may receive an indication of a numerical quantity of beams in a set of beams associated with SSB transmission during a discovery window. The UE m...