ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,934, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Repeater beam requests for transparent beam management" was invented by Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may report an initial capability to maintain latency conditions and a number of supported beams (e.g., a threshold number of beams the UE can support for relaying downlink communications such as synchronization signal blocks (...