ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,561, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Common beam direction indication for single-target and multi-target communications" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods can use common transmission configuration indication (TCI) states to indicate beam directions for single-target and multi-target communications. A wireless communication device is configured to communicate a configuration for a plurality of transmission configuration indications (TCIs). The wireless communication device i...