US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 29 for "Mapping between a control beam and a data channel beam" (New Jersey, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,140, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mapping between a control beam and a data channel beam" was invented by Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.), Sundar Subramanian (San Diego), Bilal Sadiq (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Somerset, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a need for a beam tracking technique that reduces the time needed to perform a beamforming procedure and that reduces beam overhead. The apparatus may determine a mapping between a first beam associated with a first type of channel and a second beam associated with a second type of channel. I...