ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,360, issued on May 12, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for applying a unified transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state to a target signal" was invented by Ke Yao (Shenzhen, China), Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Bo Gao (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China) and Wenjun Yan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a wireless communication method of receiving, by a wireless communication device from a network, first signaling, wherein the first signaling activates one or more beam state codepoints, each of the one ...