ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,983, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam configuration indication for a downlink control channel" was invented by Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Runxin Wang (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to indicate a single frequency network (SFN) mode and associated composite channel reference signals to a user equipment (UE). A UE and a base station may communicate via two or more transmission and reception points (TRPs) using an SFN transmission, which may represent a transmission hav...