US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Network-assisted beamforming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,341, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network-assisted beamforming" was invented by Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods and techniques for wireless communication via non-codebook beam directions to allow dynamic beamforming using non-codebook beam directions. In certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain, from a wireless node, a plurality of reference signals (RSs) via one or more receive beams, wherein each of the one or more receive beams is characterized by one o...