ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,948, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Multidimensional beam refinement procedures and signaling for mmWave WLANs" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Alphan Sahin (Westbury, N.Y.), Rui Yang (Greenlawn, N.Y.), Cen Lin (Irvine, Calif.), Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.) and Li-Hsiang Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for multidimensional beam refinement procedures and signaling for millimeter wave WLANs. In some embodiments, there are multi-dimensional enhanced beam refinement protocol MAC and PHY frame desi...