ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,110, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wireless communications using multiple antenna arrays and a lens array" was invented by Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may be configured to include an array of lenses along with multiple antenna arrays that each include a set of antenna elements. The antenna arrays may each support multiple beam directions, such as a respective beam direction for each lens of the array of lenses. ...