US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Beam sweeping on millimeter wave frequencies for device-to-device communications" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,826, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam sweeping on millimeter wave frequencies for device-to-device communications" was invented by Jose Edson Vargas (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first user equipment (UE) performs a limited beam sweep of one or more transmit beams on a second frequency band in an estimated direction from the first UE to the second UE, wherein the estimated directio...