ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,626, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Asymmetric uplink-downlink beam training in frequency bands" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Franklin Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may identify a collective antenna array that includes both a downlink antenna array and an uplink antenna array for communications with a second wireless device. Accordingly, the first wireless device and the second wireless device may perform a beam training proc...