ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,426, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Beam alignment method and apparatus" was invented by Qiao Liu (Chengdu, China) and Guangjian Wang (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device receives a first uplink signal from a terminal device; the network device calculates a conjugate phase corresponding to the first uplink signal, and determines, based on the conjugate phase, a narrow beam whose direction of arrival is opposite to a direction of arrival of the first uplink signal as a target transmit beam aligned between the network device and the terminal device; and the ...