US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Systems, methods, and devices for enhanced beam selection" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,620, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for enhanced beam selection" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Jie Cui (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, described herein, include solutions for enabling a base station and user equipment (UE) to use low beam (e.g., frequency range 1 (FR1)) communications to determine a line-of-sight (LOS) status of a beam between the base station and ...