ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,198, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Beamforming sweeping and training in a flexible frame structure for new radio" was invented by Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.), Allan Y. Tsai (Boonton, N.J.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Lakshmi R. Iyer (King of Prussia, Pa.), Wei Chen (San Diego) and Joseph M. Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is at least directed to an apparatus on a network including a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon for beamforming training. The appa...