ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,306, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state groups" was invented by Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Ran Berliner (Kfar Aviv, Israel) and Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state configuration in multi-stream communication between a radio access network (RAN) entity and a user equipment (UE). The UE may obtain a respective beam quality metric for each transmit beam of a plurality of transmit beams associated with the RAN entity and transmit a beam report to the RAN ent...