ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,216, issued on July 8, was assigned to PELTBEAM INC. (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

"Central cloud server and edge devices assisted high speed low-latency wireless connectivity" was invented by Mehdi Hatamian (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Venkat Kalkunte (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first edge device includes a processor that captures and communicates position information of the first edge device and a time-of-day. Based on the time-of-day and a specific initial access information, the processor sets: a first beam index for an uplink communication and a second beam index for a downlink communication, a specific physical c...