ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,206, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Beam management during initial access" was invented by Olof Zander (Sodra Sandby, Sweden), Fredrik Rusek (Eslov, Sweden), Erik Bengtsson (Eslov, Sweden), Kun Zhao (Malmo, Sweden) and Jose Flordelis (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a wireless communication device (102) configured to connect to a communications network (100) includes: monitoring for multiple downlink reference signals (411) transmitted by at least one access node of the communications network (100) using multiple downlink transmit beams (361-364), each one of the multip...