ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,616, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Azimuth mode configurations for orbital angular momentum multiplexing based communication" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Min Huang (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Jun Ma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing based communication. In some aspects, a transmitter of OAM multiplexing based communication may determine an azimuth mode configuration for transmitting a data stream, wherein the azimuth mode configuration indicates one...