ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,184, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Uplink beam sweeping during random access procedures" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Yan Zhou (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may involve a user equipment (UE) utilizing beam sweeping during a random access procedure to determine an uplink beam for subsequent communication with a base station. The UE may transmit a firs...