ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,373, issued on March 18.

"Beam-dependent system information" was invented by Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a first synchronization signal associated with a first beam, and receive, from the base station and based at least in part on the first synchronization signal, scheduling information. Accordingly, the UE may receive, from the base station and based at least in part on th...