ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,271, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for indication of inter-cell beam management" was invented by Emad N. Farag (Flanders, N.J.), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, Texas), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, Texas) and Dalin Zhu (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for indication for inter-cell beam management in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information for a list of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states, receiving TCI state code points activat...