ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,049, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmit diversity across orbital angular momentum modes" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Min Huang (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for determining a transmit diversity across orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes are described. In some examples, a first device may select a subset of OAM modes for a transmit diversity scheme associated with communications between the first device and a second device. The first device may transmit an indication of the transmit diversity scheme, where ...