ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,349, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mechanisms for indicating beam directions" was invented by Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may transmit beam indication information to one or more user equipment (UE) devices. For each of a plurality of time units (e.g., symbols) in a time in...