ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,671, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Configuration of a multi-beam downlink based on TCI states in a wireless system" was invented by Emad N. Farag (Flanders, N.J.), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, Texas), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, Texas) and Aris Papasakellariou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for a multi-beam downlink and uplink wireless system. A method of a user equipment includes receiving configuration information for one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states and corresponding TCI state identifiers (IDs) and receiving one or...