ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,498, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Determining optimal beam weights to be used over an antenna subset" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.) and Sinan Adibelli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) and related apparatus are provided. In the method, the UE receives, from a network entity, a first set of reference signals associated with a first number of available antenna elements on the UE, and selects, based on the first set of reference signals, a second number of selected antenna elements from the first number...