US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 23 for "Reporting of a beam index in a communications network" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,648, issued on June 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Reporting of a beam index in a communications network" was invented by Rupesh Kumar Thakur (Lund, Sweden) and Swapnil Jain (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reporting a beam index by a wireless device including a controller, a beam predictor, and a radio transceiver. The method incudes obtaining an indication that the wireless device is to report a beam index to an access network node and obtaining the beam index from the beam predictor by providing information of current geographic position of the wireless device and...