US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 15 for "Beam management" (Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,142, issued on April 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Beam management" was invented by Joseph M. Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Wei Chen (San Diego), Lakshmi R. Iyer (King of Prussia, Pa.), Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.) and Allan Y. Tsai (Boonton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Layer 2 structures and procedures may be used for beam management in new radio networks. In a first example, a new radio layer 2 structure may be used to facilitate beam management at the medium access control sublayer. In a second example, new...