ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,717, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Inter-cell measurement and reporting for beam management" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Ruhua He (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego) and Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for inter-cell measurement and reporting. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes sending, to a base station (B...