ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,861, issued on May 26, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Group based beam report for multi-transmission reference point (TRP) transmission" was invented by Bingchao Liu (Beijing) and Chenxi Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for group based beam report for multi-TRP transmission are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a configuration of one or two CMR sets for channel measurement associated with a CSI-ReportConfig IE with groupBasedBeamReporting set to 'enabled', reportQuantity set to 'cri-RSRP' or 'ssb-Index-RSRP', and nrofReportedRSGroup indicating the number N of beam pairs, N is...