ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,486, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hexagonal antenna lattice for multiple-input, multiple-output communications with beamforming" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Min Huang (Beijing), Wei Xi (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Allen Minh-Triet Tran (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first wireless device may transmit one or more signals to a second wireless device using an antenna panel including antenna elements that are arranged in a hexagonal configuration. Th...