ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,174, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission configuration indicator state activation techniques for carrier aggregation" was invented by Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.) and Kiran Venugopal (Raritan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which different component carriers (CCs) or bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a system operating according to carrier aggregation may be configured with different transmission configuration indicator (TC...