ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,800, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Pathloss reference signal and transmission configuration indicator state activation with secondary cell activation" 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: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a message that indicates a secondary cell (SCell) for activation. The UE may measure a reference signal on the SCell to estimate pathloss based at least in part on receiving the messag...