ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,843, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Connection setup in OAM-based communication system" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for connection setup in an orbital angular momentum (OAM)-based communication system are described. A first device and a second device may establish an OAM communications connection between the devices. The first device and the second device may exchange a series of messages over a downlink communications link and an uplink communications link according to ...