ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,688, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Generating and steering orbital angular momentum beams" was invented by Wei Xi (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Hao Xu (Beijing), Min Huang (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Jing Dai (Beijing), Rui Hu (Beijing) and Jian Li (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a device may select antenna elements from a planar array to transmit or receive an orbital angular momentum...