ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,161, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for beam management in communication system" was invented by Yongok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Inkyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jeehwan Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myungkwang Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Subin Eom (Seoul, South Korea) and Hongju Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5th-generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system, which is to be provided for supporting higher data transmission...