US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Jan. 13 for "Method and apparatus for beam alignment using direction of attention" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,036, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for beam alignment using direction of attention" was invented by Young-Hoon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seon-Ae Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a transmitting node may comprise: exchanging, with a receiving node, configuration information for beam direction search; generating DoA measurement request frames based on the configuration information; transmitting the DoA measurement request frames to the receiving node through a coarse beam in a partitioned area...