US Patent Issued to AT&T Technical Services on Oct. 28 for "System information delivery via beam sweeping in advanced networks" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,504, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AT&T Technical Services Co. Inc. (Vienna, Va.).

"System information delivery via beam sweeping in advanced networks" was invented by Daniel Vivanco (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards user equipment requests for delivery of other system information block (SIB) data from a base station, in which one or more beams for transmitting the other SIB data can be specified by the user equipment based on its state data. Transmitting via only selected beams saves network resources, generally without increasing user equipment retry requests. The user eq...