ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,809, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment (UE) antenna module lock function" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Benjamin Cheadle (San Diego), Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego) and Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications systems are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a set of beam-swept synchronization signals associated with a testing procedure for the UE. The UE may select a first beam pair associated with a first antenna module of the UE from a se...