US Patent Issued to Apple on April 1 for "QCL configuration and DCI indication for unified framework" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,697, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"QCL configuration and DCI indication for unified framework" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (Cuertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message can be communicated from a base station to a user equipment (UE) device. In the message, a unified TCI state can be provided. The TCI state can support two QCL types, wherein the QCL types are based on Q...