ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,279, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Transmission and reception with multiple beams" was invented by Kai Xu (Great Falls, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may receive a first downlink control information (DCI) associated with scheduling resources for a transport block (TB) and indicating a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state from a first TCI state pool. The wireless device may furt...