ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,676, issued on June 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink control information based unified transmission configuration indicator acknowledgement" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A unified transmission configuration indicator (TCI) framework may be implemented by a wireless communication system may support joint common TCI states for downlink and uplink channels or reference signals associated with communications between devices. A ba...