ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,592, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Transmission configuration indicator configuration" was invented by Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.) and Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, from a base station, one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising a unified transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state type parameter, for a cell, that indicates a unified TCI state type among a separate TCI state type and a joint TCI state type. The separate TCI state type...