US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Frequency domain beam sweep by assisting nodes" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,235, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Frequency domain beam sweep by assisting nodes" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.) and Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assisting network device receives an incoming signal from a transmitting device. The assisting network device forwards the incoming signal to a receiving device in a beam direction based on a frequency of the incoming signal. A method of wireless communication by a first wireless device includes determining an indi...