ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,453, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Devices for communication in a wireless communication network using beamforming" was invented by Richard Stirling-Gallacher (Munich), Zhongfeng Li (Shanghai) and Jian Luo (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device is configured to communicate with a second communication device and a third communication device in a wireless communication network using beamforming. The first communication device is configured to determine a new beam from a plurality of available beams of the second communication device in response to a beam...