ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,613, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink beam training on neighbor cell" was invented by Jie Cui (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Cupertino, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Xiang Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Yang Tang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a user equipment to train a transmit beam of a transmission configuration indication (TCI) for a non-serving cell. A system may use uplink (UL) ...