ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,769, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Codebook design and feedback for circular antenna array beamforming" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for closed-loop precoding for multiple-input multiple-output for transmitter circle arrays, for example uniform circular array panels. In some aspects, a base station including a transmitter circle array may steer a beam to a user equipment (UE) using codebooks, quantization rules, and feedback from t...