US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 9 for "Orbital angular momentum communication with variable antenna number" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,994, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Orbital angular momentum communication with variable antenna number" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless node may transmit, to a second wireless node, an indication of an orbital angular momentum (OAM) base value that is associated with one or more OAM modes. The OAM base value may correspond to a number of antenna elements of an antenna ring at the first wireless node, and for each ...