US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 8 for "Beam ready time for downlink control information based beam activation command" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,904, issued on April 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam ready time for downlink control information based beam activation command" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a new beam ready time that indicates a time at which a beam is to be ready for use in communicating with a base station. The beam may be activated by a downlink control information based beam activation command received by the UE...