ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,025, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"User equipment-assisted beam broadening" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Chao Wei (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to user equipment (UE)-assisted beam broadening in a wireless communication system configured to employ beamforming. A UE may determine downlink channel characteristics by monitoring for, receiving, and measuring a suitable downlink reference signal. Based on the channel characteristics the UE may select a wide beam corresponding to a set of narrow beams. The UE may then transmit a rep...