ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,232, issued on May 12, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and systems for beam management in wireless networks" was invented by Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China), Jianwu Dou (Shenzhen, China) and Jianqiang Dai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for techniques for beam management in wireless networks are disclosed. In one example aspect, the method includes receiving, by a wireless device, a configuration from a network device, and initiating, by the wireless device, a process to recover a link to a network based on information elements within the configuration as...