ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,390, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Joint precoding across multiple beams" was invented by Kiran Venugopal (Green Brook, N.J.), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Tao Luo (San Diego), Sungwoo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Fang Yuan (Beijing) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication. The method includes determining a configuration of reference signal (RS) resources to be used by a user-equipment (UE) to perform beam measurements, transmitting...