ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,335, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for updating beam information and communications apparatus" was invented by Peng Guan (Shenzhen, China) and Xi Zhang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides methods and apparatuses for updating beam information. One method includes: receiving beam update information of a first component carrier (CC), and updating, based on the beam update information of the first CC, beam information of the first CC and beam information of one or more second CCs associated with the first CC."

The patent was filed on Feb. 1...