ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,996, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatus and methods for enhancing multi-beam operation in wireless networks" was invented by Reza Kalbasi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of uplink beam selection that includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of reference signals associated with a plurality of downlink beams comprising a first downlink beam; first determining, based on a beam sweeping process comprising measurement, of the reference signals, a plurality of uplink beams associated with the first downlink beam; s...