ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,361, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Beamformed discovery" was invented by Nuno Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark) and Jeroen Wigard (Klarup, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising one or more processors, and one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform: receiving, by a user equipment, directional probability information comprising a plurality of directions with probabilities, wherein a probability of a direction of the plurality of directio...