ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,431, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Joint phase and gain calibration for millimeter wave beamforming" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Kobi Ravid (Closter, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to a network unit, a plurality of reference signals, wherein the plurality of reference signals is associated with a first set of phase and gain values to be used with a first antenna ...