ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,342, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for aperiodic CSI measurement and reporting" was invented by Dalin Zhu (Richardson, Texas), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, Texas) and Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for aperiodic channel state information (CSI) measurement and reporting in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving an indication to enable group-based beam reporting and receiving a channel state information (CSI) request for the group-based beam repor...