ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,327, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Method for beam switching and UCI transmission" was invented by Xincai Li (Guangdong, China), Li Tian (Guangdong, China) and Wei Zou (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for beam switching and uplink control information transmission. In some implementations, a data communication method performing, by a mobile device, a first transmission on a first beam to a communication nod, and performing, by the mobile device, a second transmission subsequent to the first transmission, on a second beam different from the fi...