ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,979, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Beam application method and apparatus" was invented by Mingju Li (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for beam application is performed by a terminal device, and includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a network device, wherein the DCI comprises a unified transmission configuration indication (TCI) state; and determining at least one of a beam application time for uplink (UL) transmission or a beam application time for downlink (DL) transmission corresponding to the unified TCI state."
The patent was filed on Aug...