ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,932, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Technologies for beam switching to receive downlink repetitions" was invented by Bishwarup Mondal (San Ramon, Calif.), Avik Sengupta (San Jose, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing) and Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to beam switching. An embodiment of a user equipment (UE) comprises a processor to configure the UE to receive, one or more repetitions of a transport block (TB) using a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) beam, obtain a downlink control information (DCI) comprising one or more tran...