ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,172, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Beamlock on a plurality of antenna arrays" was invented by Rachit Mahendra (Bangalore, India), Smita Shetty (Bangalore, India) and Christian Rom (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable storage medium for beamlock on a plurality of antenna arrays. In a method, a first apparatus receives a beamlock message from a second apparatus. The beamlock message indicates that one or more transmitting beams are to be locked on a first list of antenna arrays an...