ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,704, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Resource configuration for wireless communication" was invented by Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.) and Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless devices may communicate via a plurality of transmission and/or reception beams. Control information may be used to indicate one or more beams to be used by wireless devices. A configuration message may indicate a portion of the control information corresponding to a par...