US Patent 11937097 Diversity improvement in wireless devices with beam hopping

A first wireless device may be configured to achieve diversity gain via beam hopping. In some aspects, the wireless device may configure a beam hopping mode for communications with a second wireless device, the beam hopping mode scheduling the first wireless device to switch between a plurality of candidate beam pairs over a plurality of symbols in accordance with a beam switching pattern, and beamform, during the communication with the second wireless device, a beam of each of the plurality of candidate beams in accordance with the beaming switching pattern.