ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,655, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for beam refinement and beam selection enhancement" was invented by Yi Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Ting Kong (San Diego), Mihir Vijay Laghate (San Diego), Rahul Malik (San Diego) and Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device may select a first beam and a second beam from a set of beams for communicating with a second device. The first device may perform a beam refinement procedure of the first beam to generate a first multicast autonomous beam refinem...