ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,426, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient signaling of beam shape information" was invented by Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless device may receive a set of indications for each beam zone of a plurality of beam zones. The set of indications, for each beam zone, may include (i) a first indication of a full beam shape of a first beam associated with the beam zone, (ii) a second indication of a first di...