ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,331, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipment and method for unified TCI state operation" was invented by Wan-Chen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Hung Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a unified Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state operation performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration for configuring a first set of TCI states and a second set of TCI states; receiving a first indication for associating the first set of TCI states with a first c...