ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,245, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mode determination for orbital angular momentum communication system" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter may receive, from a receiver associated with an orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing based communication, feedback; determine a selected OAM mode for communication with the receiver based at least in part on the feedback; and transmit the OAM multiplexing based communic...