ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,446, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Scheduling and beam design in JPTA" was invented by Ahmad AlAmmouri (Richardson, Texas), Jianhua Mo (Allen, Texas) and Young Han Nam (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatuses for scheduling and beam design in joint phase time arrays (JPTAs). In another embodiment, a method for operating a base station (BS) is provided. The method includes identifying a set of user equipments (UEs) to schedule, a plurality of resource blocks (RBs), and a UE beam map. The UE beam map maps one or more beams from a plurality of beams to ...