ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,382, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Default beam determination" was invented by Bingchao Liu (Changping District, China), Chenxi Zhu (Haidian District, China), Wei Ling (Changping, China), Yi Zhang (Chao Yang District, China) and Lingling Xiao (Haidian District, Benin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for determining default beam(s) are disclosed. A method comprises receiving an activation command for the activated BWP of a serving cell, wherein the activation command contains codepoints pointing to TCI state(s), and at least one codepoint points to two TCI states; and dete...