ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,759, issued on April 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Beam selection in unlicensed operation" was invented by Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes a method performed by a user equipment, UE, for selecting a directional beam for a random access procedure in a wireless network comprising: performing a plurality of directional listen-before-talk, LBT, procedures in a respective plurality of different directions associated with a respective plurality of beams, determining respective first metrics based on received power of respective reference signals associa...