ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,727, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Unified TCI framework" was invented by Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a command for a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state change for a joint TCI state including uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) signals, decode the joint TCI state command performing measurements necessary to receive and transmit wit...