ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,016, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"QCL indication method and related device" was invented by Liuliu Ji (Shanghai) and Xiaoyan Bi (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a quasi co-location (QCL) indication method and a related device, and may be applied to coordinated multistation transmission. In the method, a terminal receives QCL indication information, where the QCL indication information indicates that time-frequency spread information of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) is associated with time-frequency spread information of N tracking referen...