ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,942, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Group beam selection and beam merging" was invented by Robert Ayrapetian (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Gautam Shreedhar Bhat (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Pradeep Kumar Govindaraju (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that performs beam selection and beam merging using beam-specific signal quality metrics corresponding to a minimum noise floor. For example, a device may track a minimum noise floor for each beam, determine a highest minimum noise floor across the beams, and determine a noise floor ratio between the beam-specific minimum noise floor an...