ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,893, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Rate matching and beam measurement for inter-cell beam management and inter-cell multi-TRP operation" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inter-cell beam management and inter-cell multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) operation may include decoding a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) pattern lis...