ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,516, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reduced activation time for transmission configuration indicator state" 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: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a set of reference signals (RSs) that are associated with a reduced activation time. The UE may receive activation signaling identifying a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state associated with an ...