ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,978, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coordination for smooth beamforming" was invented by Meriam Rezk (Campbell, Calif.), Cheng-Ming Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Deniz Rende (San Jose, Calif.) and Ahmed Ragab Elsherif (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for coordination for smooth beamforming. Some aspects more specifically relate to techniques to reduce phase misalignment and delay spread to beamformed messages such that a receiving device may apply channel smoothing filtering to the received beamformed message. In some examples, t...