ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,954, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and device for configuring a quantity of sweeping beams" was invented by Man Wang (Shanghai) and Zhiqiang Zou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method, applied to beam sweeping. The method includes: obtaining system load of a cell at a current moment; configuring a quantity of sweeping beams in a sweeping periodicity based on the system load at the current moment; and configuring a quantity of shutdown symbols based on the quantity of sweeping beams. This application further provides a commu...