ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,187, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Lens communication with multiple antenna arrays" was invented by Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communications device may transmit a first signal. The first signal may be transmitted from a first antenna array of the communications device through a lens of the communications device in a direction. An energy of a portion of the first signal may be...