US Patent Issued to Apple on July 22 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for quasi-co-location (QCL) and spatial relation assumptions during random access procedures" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,486, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for quasi-co-location (QCL) and spatial relation assumptions during random access procedures" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein involve the use of quasi-co-location (QCL) capabilities and spatial relation assumption to enable a UE to designate...