ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,303, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam indications for multiple uplink or downlink channels and reference signals" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Mountain View, Calif.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Greentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to receive a message including transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states information associated with beam information for uplink or downlink resources. The UE may identify multiple chann...