ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,098, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Proactive communication of hybrid beamforming parameters between devices" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some systems, a first device may calculate hybrid beamforming parameters for a second device. The first device may calculate the hybrid beamforming parameters based on an estimation of channel information associated with at least a portion of a communication link ...