ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,013, issued on July 1, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatuses for beam measurement" was invented by Huaisong Zhu (Beijing) and Zhan Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for beam measurement. According to an embodiment, a base station obtains a subset of target beams of at least one neighboring base station which is to be measured by a terminal device. The subset is based on historical association between a source beam serving the terminal device and one or more of the target beams. The base station transmits information indicating the ...