US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 16 for "Beam quad selection for four-layer millimeter wave transmissions" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,647, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam quad selection for four-layer millimeter wave transmissions" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, 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 receive, from a network node, one or more downlink reference signals during a beam training procedure. The UE may estimate, based at least in part on one or more metrics associated with the one or more downlink reference signals received during the beam training procedure, a covaria...