ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,709, issued on May 19, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Direction determining for over-the-air testing of a radio transceiver device" was invented by Sam Agneessens (Torslanda, Sweden), Torbjorn Elfstrom (Fjaras, Sweden), Jonas Friden (Onsala, Sweden) and Aidin Razavi (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for determining direction of a second radio transceiver device with respect to a first radio transceiver device. The first radio transceiver device is configured to communicate with beams in a beam set. A method is performed by a processing unit. The method...