ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,982, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Beam prediction by user equipment using angle assistance information" was invented by Andrea Bonfante (Paris), Qiping Zhu (Wheaton, Ill.) and Frederick Vook (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam prediction by a user equipment using angle assistance information are provided. For example, a method can include receiving assistance information from a network and measuring a plurality of reference signal transmissions from the network. The method can also include predicting best ...