ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,058, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for fast beam indication" was invented by Emad N. Farag (Flanders, N.J.), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, Texas), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, Texas) and Dalin Zhu (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for fast beam indication. A method of operating a UE includes receiving a number (M) of transmission configuration indicator (TCI)state code points activated by a medium access control element (MAC CE) and, if the UE is configured to be indicated TCI state code points on DL control information (DCI) ...