ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,511, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Detection of a cell and an antenna beam" was invented by Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark), Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark), Rafhael Amorim (Aalborg, Denmark) and Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a first access node that provides a first beacon and a second access node that provides a second beacon, the system further comprising a terminal device that performs, in parallel or semi-parallel, a first beam sweep and a second beam sweep, wherein the first beam sweep is performed by a first antenna pane...