ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,952, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reference signals in active TCI switching" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein can facilitate the use of reference signals in active TCI switching. One example aspect is a user equipment (UE), comprising: a memory interface; and processing circuitry communicativel...