ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,769, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission configuration indicator states in downlink control information format 1_2" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) in format 1_2 that includes an indicator with a first quantity of codepoints that is smaller than a second quantity of activated transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states....