ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,320, issued on May 13, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Methods and apparatus of single common beam-based operation" was invented by Li Guo (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods to operate a communication device (UE) in a common beam mode. According to an aspect, the UE may assume that beam characteristics for a single common beam can be reused by multiple channels and reference signals without the need for repeated signaling indicating the Tx beam in subsequent transmissions, such that network bandwidth consumption can be reduced...