ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,344, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-beam transmission signaling for uplink communication channels" was invented by Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China), Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Bo Gao (Shenzhen, China), Hao Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Ke Yao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for multi-beam transmission signaling for uplink communication channels. A wireless communication device may receive, from a wireless communication node, B candidate groups of power control parameters. The wi...