US Patent Issued to ZTE on March 18 for "Transmission configuration indicator (TCI) switching using listen before talk (LBT) counters" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,429, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Transmission configuration indicator (TCI) switching using listen before talk (LBT) counters" was invented by Li Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Ruiqi Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for transmission configuration indicator (TCI) switching using listen before talk (LBT) counters. A wireless communication device in an active TCI switching procedure may receive a physical data shared channel with an activation command. The wireless communication device may determine that a targe...