ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,631, issued on March 17, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"QCL relationship determination method and device, node, and storage medium" was invented by Xinquan Ye (Shenzhen, China), Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, China), Guanghui Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a quasi-co-location (QCL) relationship, applied to a first node, including: acquiring indication information; determining the QCL relationship between a first reference signal and a second reference signal according to the indication information; where the indicati...