US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Directional channel access using a narrow beam with multiple spatial streams" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,720, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Directional channel access using a narrow beam with multiple spatial streams" was invented by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Marcos, Calif.), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Aspects of the disclosure describe narrow beam-based channel access that enables a device to communicate in a shared radio frequency spectrum band without performing channel access procedures. Specifically, aspects of ...