US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 22 for "Enhanced beamforming codebook design with out-of-coverage beams" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,482, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced beamforming codebook design with out-of-coverage beams" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.) and Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to mechanisms for generating an enhanced beamforming codebook to cover an out-of-coverage region of an antenna module of a wireless communication device (e.g., a UE). The UE may include an initial beamforming codebook configuring a plurality of beam weights intended to cover an in-coverage region corresponding to a boresight direction and a neighborhood the...