ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,334, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission configuration indicator state set preconfiguration in candidate cells" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a user equipment (UE) to receive, via a first active cell serving the UE, a first control message activating a set of transmission configuration indicator states associated with a set of candidate cells that are inactive at the UE. The UE may rec...