US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 8 for "Sidelink beam sweeping" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,211, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Sidelink beam sweeping" was invented by Pengfei Xia (San Diego), Bin Liu (San Diego) and Young Hoon Kwon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for sidelink beam sweeping includes transmitting, by a first electronic device and to a base station, uplink sounding reference signals (UL-SRSs) on N UL-SRS resources using N transmit beam patterns, where N is an integer greater than 1, receiving, by the first electronic device and from the base station, information associated with sidelink beam management (...