ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,019, issued on July 1, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Beam switching method and apparatus, and network device, terminal and storage medium" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam switching method includes: a network device sending a network device beam switching information to a terminal according to position information and channel measurement information of the terminal, where the beam switching information includes information of a beam switching requirement and/or a destination beam."

The patent was filed on July 31, 2020, under Application No. 18/003,895.

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