ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,925, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Enhanced beam switching" was invented by Lars Dalsgaard (Oulu, Finland), Dimitri Gold (Espoo, Finland) and Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced beam switching. A method may include informing a network element about a user equipment type and capability in beam switching from a source beam to a target beam. The method may further include receiving a request from the network element to switch from the source beam to the target beam. The method may also include...