ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,232, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Beam determination procedures with uplink assistant information" was invented by Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for beam determination may include receiving, by a wireless device from a base station, configuration parameters indicating transmission configuration indication (TCI) state pools, wherein each TCI state pool, of the TCI state pools, comprise...