ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,172, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for beam management, measurement and reporting for inter-cell operation" was invented by Dalin Zhu (Richardson, Texas), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, Texas), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, Texas) and Emad N. Farag (Flanders, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for beam management, measurement and reporting for inter-cell operation in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration for inter-cell operation, receiving a transmission configurat...