ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,435, issued on May 6, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Electronic device for selecting beam and method thereof" was invented by Daehee Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Chonghwa Seo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic device including an antenna module comprising a plurality of antenna elements, and a processor operatively connected to the antenna module, wherein the processor is configured to form a plurality of reception beams by selecting a first number of antenna elements among the plurality of antenna elements, receive a first signal from an external de...