ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,647, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems, methods, and devices for TCI configuration" was invented by Shuang Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China) and Ziyang Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to TCI configuration, including receiving, by a network node, one or more Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) states for one or more links, the one or more links including at least one of a first forwarding link from the network node to a wireless communication device, or a second forwarding link from the wi...