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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2023
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);
Qiming Li, Beijing, CN;
Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US);
Jie Cui, San Diego, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04L 5/0051 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques, described herein, include solutions for enabling a base station and user equipment (UE) to use low beam (e.g., frequency range 1 (FR1)) communications to determine a line-of-sight (LOS) status of a beam between the base station and the UE, and use the LOS status to establish or maintain a link or channel using a high beam (e.g., frequency range 2 (FR2)).