ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,958, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam-specific key performance indicator indication for serving node selection" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a communication device may receive control signaling (e.g., a broadcasted control signal) from another communication device. The control signaling may indicate beam in...