ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,884, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information for a physical cell identifier (PCI) different from a serving cell PCI; receiving second information for source or measurement reference signals (RSs) for the PCI; determining, based on one or ...