ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,686, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Beam management" was invented by Jukka Olavi Talvitie (Ylojarvi, Finland), Jari Yrjana Hulkkonen (Oulu, Finland), Sami-Jukka Hakola (Kempele, Finland), Esa Tapani Tiirola (Oulu, Finland), Toni Aleksi Levanen (Tampere, Finland) and Mikko Valkama (Nokia, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means for determining a set of beams for use in transmitting and/or receiving at least one signal in a first frequency range; determining at least one mapped beam, wherein determining the at least one mapped beam comprises mapping at least one ...