ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,204, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cross-cell beam failure recovery" was invented by Wei Zeng (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Tang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to performing beam failure recovery during an inter-cell connection involving a UE in communication with one or more base stat...