ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,347, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Applying zero element beam in search and measurement procedure for power savings in MMW" was invented by Jun Zhu (San Diego), Yongle Wu (San Diego), Jafar Mohseni (San Diego) and Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for applying a zero element beam to conserve power in search and measurement operations of a UE. The UE may determine to measure a set of SSBs, where each SSB of the set of SSBs is transmitted on four symbols,...