ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,796, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Quasi co-location source reference signal capability for transmission configuration indication 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: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a UE transmits an indication of capability of the UE to support one or more reference signal (RS) types as a quasi co-location (QCL) source RS for one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states. A base station receives the indication...