ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,565, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Control messaging for multi-beam communications" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for facilitating control messaging for multi-beam communications in 5G wireless communication systems. Nodes of a 5G network may be generate Medium Access Control Contro...