ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,291, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Sidelink beam management" was invented by Pengfei Xia (San Diego), Bin Liu (San Diego) and Young Hoon Kwon (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sidelink beam reporting for device to device (D2D) communication includes receiving, by a first electronic device and from a base station, configuration of one or more beam management reference signals (BMRSs) on a sidelink between the first electronic device and a second electronic device and configuration of one or more sidelink random access channels (SL-RACHs), receiving a...