US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Techniques for continuous beam scanning for integrated lens antennas" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,409, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for continuous beam scanning for integrated lens antennas" was invented by Ronen Shaked (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network entity may generate a set of beamforming weights for a lens antenna associated with the network entity. Further, the network entity may generate the set of beamforming weights based on a convergence location corresponding to a target coverage area of a cell supported by the network entity. The convergence locatio...