ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,099, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Sensor-assisted millimeter-wave beam management" was invented by Ioannis Pefkianakis (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenglian Cai (Cupertino, Calif.), Prashant H. Vashi (San Jose, Calif.) and Guillaume Monghal (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes systems and processes for sensor-assisted antenna and beam selection for wireless networks. The systems and processes are configured to detect out of coverage (OoC) scenarios and perform beam management in response to detecting the OoC scenario. The systems and methods are configured to perform bea...