ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,281, issued on July 28, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Indicating a transmission configuration indicator state" was invented by Matha Deghel (Montrouge, France) and Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method comprising receiving a first information element indicating two transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, receive a configuration, and determining an association between the two indicated TCI states and at least one physical uplink control channel resource group according to the configuration. The configuration causes the apparatus to deter...