ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,256, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"User equipment beam refinement before completion of handover" was invented by Ahmad Awada (Munich), Christian Rom (Aalborg, Denmark), Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Ingo Viering (Munich) and Jedrzej Stanczak (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved techniques of beam management in a HO situation include receiving, at a source node from a candidate target node after receiving a measurement report from a UE prior to completion of a HO, a repetition configuration of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resourc...