ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,079, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Switching across antenna modules with independent boresight directions" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Sinan Adibelli (San Diego) and Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE). The UE transmits capability information corresponding to one or more antenna modules of the UE to a network entity. The capability information may include a quantity of boresight directions associated with each antenna modul...