ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,674, issued on June 9, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Configuring uplink transmission configuration indication states" was invented by Chenxi Zhu (Fairfax, Va.), Wei Ling (Beijing), Bingchao Liu (Beijing), Yi Zhang (Beijing) and Lingling Xiao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring UL-TCI states. One method includes receiving a RRC message configuring a set of UL-TCI states. Each UL-TCI state defines at least one uplink spatial relationship. Each uplink spatial relationship corresponds to a spatial domain transmission filter corresponding to a CSI-RS, a...