ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,782, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Techniques for communicating beam information" was invented by Yu Ngok Li (Guangdong, China), Bo Gao (Guangdong, China), Yijian Chen (Guangdong, China), Huahua Xiao (Guangdong, China) and Zhaohua Lu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes techniques for facilitating the operation of a multi-antenna communication system. The disclosed technology can be implemented to provide a method for wireless communications which includes receiving, by a user device, an indication about an association between multiple reference resources ...