ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,000, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam configuration reporting for hierarchical beam pair identification" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 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 first network entity may transmit, to a second network entity, beam configuration information associated with the first network entity, wherein the beam configuration information indicates hierarchical beam relations between one or more wide beams and a plurality of narrow...