ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,799, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Single frequency network transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state activation" was invented by Kiran Venugopal (Raritan, N.J.), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to techniques for activating transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states based on a TCI state update list including a plurality of component carriers. A TCI state activation message for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) can include two TCI states for single frequency network (SFN) operation of ...