ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,085, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Separate DL-UL beam indication for separate DL-UL TCI state" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Yitao Chen (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Yan Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for separate downlink/uplink beam indication for separate downlink/uplink TCI states. The apparatus receives an activation command activating at least one of one or more downlink TCI states, or one or more uplink TCI states. The apparatus applies at least one of the one or more downlink TCI states or the one or mo...