ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,628, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).
"Concurrent beam scanning and data reception" was invented by Joao Vieira (Hjarup, Sweden), Robert Baldemair (Solna, Sweden), Sina Maleki (Malmo, Sweden) and Muris Sarajlic (Malmo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for a communication node configured with an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. Such methods include determining a link metric for a data transmission received or transmitted using a first portion of the antenna elements, and determining a first value for a first function of the link metric and of a per...