ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,153, issued on July 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatuses for spatial resource selection" was invented by Yusheng Liu (Lund, Sweden), Xueying Hou (Lund, Sweden) and Krister Edstrom (Hjarup, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for spatial resource selection from a plurality of spatial resources. The method comprises-for each spatial resource of the plurality of spatial resources-receiving a plurality of reference signal blocks using the spatial resource (wherein at least some of the reference signal blocks are received in different frequency intervals a...