ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,162, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Beam scanning method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium" was invented by Shengxiang Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam scanning method, performed by a terminal. The method includes receiving resource configuration information that is sent by a base station according to a beam splitting capability supported by the terminal. The resource configuration information is configured for the terminal to determine resources for beam scanning using a beam formed by beam splitting."

The patent was filed on Jan. 7, 2021,...