ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,994, issued on May 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Transmission configuration indication and transmission occasion mapping" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Weidong Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for mapping transmission configuration indicator states to resources of physical downlink shared cha...