US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Transmission configuration indication (TCI) state and beam switching" (American, Chinese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,016, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Transmission configuration indication (TCI) state and beam switching" was invented by Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Andrey Chervyakov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for changing a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state by a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communications system are provided. The UE receives a first message including a TCI state change command from a network and determines, based on the first message...