ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,186, issued on June 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Beam reporting triggered by data transmission" was invented by Chunli Wu (Beijing), Samuli Turtinen (Ii, Finland) and Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to beam reporting triggered by data transmission. A first device receives from a second device configuration information concerning at least one candidate beam for serving the first device. The first device determines whether data is available for transmission from the first device to the second device. If the data is available ...