ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,940, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Aircraft beam muting for multi-aircraft emergency message relaying" was invented by Mingxi Yin (Beijing), Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing), Ruiming Zheng (Beijing), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an aerial node may determine, among a set of beams, one or more beams to be muted to mitigate potential interference associated with multiple aerial nodes transmitting to a terrestrial user equipment (UE). The aerial node may...