ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,896, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for signaling a common downlink and uplink beam" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive, from a base station, a first downlink control information (DCI) message scheduling a first transmission between the UE and the base station. The first DCI message may include an indication of a first beam associated with the first t...