ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,193, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Unified transmission configuration indication for nondedicated channels" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to determine QCL information and/or a spatial filter for non-dedicated channel and/or signal based on a unified TCI indication from a base station. In one aspect, a UE receives a TCI state indication in association with a communication of at least one non-dedicated DL channel or non-dedicated DL signal. The UE determines QCL information for the ...