ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,988, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel estimation based beam determination in holographic multiple-in multiple-out system" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Wei Xi (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a first indication that the UE is within a distance threshold (e.g., in the near field) of multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO) communications from the base station. The UE may communicate with th...