ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,508, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission type selection for beam switching" was invented by Jingchao Bao (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

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 may select one or more transmission types for communication on a plurality of beams during a time period based at least in part on transmission type priorities, and communicate on the plurality of beams during the time period based at l...