ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,239, issued on March 18.
"Beam tracking in non-terrestrial networking" was invented by Andreas Falkenberg (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for beam tracking and refinement in a 5G network includes determining, by a beam steering station, a first plurality of angular directions based on a first starting angular direction, a first ending angular direction and a first angular step; determining a first angular direction based on a first plurality of antenna gains associated with the first plurality of angular directions; determining a second plurality of angular directions based on a second starting angular dir...