US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Association of transmission configuration indicator states to physical cell identities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,573, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Association of transmission configuration indicator states to physical cell identities" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may identify an association between a set of physical cell identifiers (PCIs) identifying different transmission reception points (TRPs) and a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for a user equipment (UE). The base station may transmit a TCI state and PCI association indication to the UE. The UE may receive a d...