ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,656, issued on May 20, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).
"System method for smart beam management in 5G" was invented by Sandeep Mani Tripathi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. The method includes receiving, by a new radio (NR) base station (gNB) from a user equipment (UE), an access request on an initial beam of a plurality of beams transmitted by the gNB, the initial beam being determined by the UE as an optimal access request beam, transmitting, by the gNB to the UE, a response to the access request on the initial beam, receiving, by the gNB from the UE, an indication of a first optimal beam to...