ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,243, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Association of channel reference signals with a common beam transmission configuration indicator" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) identifying a TCI state. The UE may associate the TCI state with one or more channels or reference signals based at least in part on a configured association. The UE may...