ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,811, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Beam indication and application with multiple carriers" was invented by Kai Xu (Great Falls, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.) and Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, from a base station, a control signal indicating a plurality of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for one or more entries. An entry of the one or more entries indicates a first TCI state, of the plurality of TCI states, for a fit cell and a second TCI state, of the plur...