ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,979, issued on May 19, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Fast beam alignment techniques" was invented by Ning Wei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for beam alignment techniques. An example wireless communication method includes transmitting, by a transmitter device to a receiver device, a wireless frame spatially modulated by a transmission beam of a transmission beam width, where the wireless frame includes a pilot pattern that is mapped to a modulation angle of the transmission beam; and receiving, from the receiver device, a corrected modulation angle value and a modulation angle ...