ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,325, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Transmission configuration indicator (TCI) chain enhancements for new radio systems" was invented by Ilya Bolotin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Meng Zhang (Beijing), Andrey Chervyakov (Maynooth, Ireland), Hua Li (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rui Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes an apparatus comprising a memory to store downlink (DL) transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state chain information, and a processing circuitry, coupled with the memory, to retrieve the DL TCI state chain information from the memory, where...