ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,402, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state indication for component carriers in different modes" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to configuring, activating, or indicating transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for component carriers (CCs) operating in different modes that may relate to different numbers of TCI pools being configured for the CCs."

The patent was filed on May 12, 202...