ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,167, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-mode precoding matrix information report for orbital angular momentum based communication system" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing), Wei Xi (Beijing), Rui Hu (Beijing), Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Jing Dai (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A receiving device may receive, from a transmitting device, a configuration indicating a set ...