ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,977, issued on June 2, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for configuring default beam in communication system" was invented by Kyunggyu Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jinyoung Oh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Youngrok Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyoungju Ji (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. In a method performed by a UE in the communication system, the UE receives, from a base station, an RRC message including PDSCH resource allocation information and TCI...