ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,962, issued on June 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (New Tech Park, Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for managing multiple sets of transmission configuration indicator states" was invented by Hossein Bagheri (Urbana, Ill.), Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.) and Hyejung Jung (Northbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided, in which an activation command is received (402), which indicates a first set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states to select between, which are to be used with transmissions scheduled using a first downlink control information (DCI) format. A number...