US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "Time offset for implicit beam switch" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,255, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Time offset for implicit beam switch" was invented by Fang Yuan (Beijing), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tianyang Bai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a beam report that indicates that the UE is to switch to a beam for a physical uplink channel. The UE may switch to the beam a specified time offset after one of: transmitting the beam report to the base station, receiving a ...