ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,222, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mapping of reference signal measurements to angles of departure" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Weimin Duan (San Diego), Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego), Naga Bhushan (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a UE determines a mapping a mapping between (i) one or more measurements of one or more reference signals based on one or more transmit codebooks and (ii) one or more angles of departure (AoDs) associated with transmission of the o...