ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,386, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for beam selection based on measurement periodicities" was invented by Jun Zhu (San Diego), Chinmay Shankar Vaze (San Diego), Mihir Vijay Laghate (San Diego), Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego), Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov (San Diego), Brian Clarke Banister (San Diego) and Yongle Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may perform beam measurements for one or more subsets of beams that are selected to provide enhanced beam switch determinations. The UE ma...