ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,198, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Parallel beam management in new band combinations" was invented by Jie Cui (Cupertino, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Panagiotis Botsinis (Munich), Qiming Li (Beijing), Sameh M. Eldessoki (Munich), Herbert R. Dawid (Munich), Silvano Gori (Neubiberg, Germany) and Christian Hofmann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for beam ma...