ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,996, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Beam-based downlink monitoring" was invented by Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.) and Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes monitoring, based on a first reference signal (RS), a downlink control channel in a control resource set (coreset). The method further includes receiving a control command indicating that a group of one or more second RSs is transmitted by a base station in a direction in which listen-befor...