US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 28 for "Radio-frequency exposure beam management and selection in communications systems" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,342, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Radio-frequency exposure beam management and selection in communications systems" was invented by Sharad Sambhwani (San Diego), Dirk Nickisch (Oberpframmern, Germany), Laxminarayana Pillutla (San Diego) and Mark G Forbes (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a set of antenna panels (APs) that transmit and receive signals within a set of signal beams. A proximity sensor such as a radar sensor may gather sensor data indicative of the position an external object. The device may select an AP and a beam that maximize wire...