ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,863, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Mobility robustness using joint phase-time arrays" was invented by Jianhua Mo (Allen, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas), Jianzhong Zhang (Plano, Texas), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, Texas) and Ahmad AlAmmouri (Garland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for mobility robustness with joint phase-time arrays (JTPAs). A method for operating a base station (BS), includes determining, based on a wide-beam (WB) alignment procedure, a subset of beams for transmission of physical downlink shared control channels (PDSCHs...