ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,256, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Synchronization beam sweeping with controllable reflective surfaces in presence of multiple operators" was invented by Peter Gaal (San Diego), Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to beam sweeping with controllable reflective surfaces in the presence of co-located base stations of different network operators. A first base station that is co-located at a site with a second base station may perform a first beam sweep. The first ...