ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,671, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multiplexing of PUCCH for beam failure recovery and other signals" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Gang Xiong (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alexei Davydov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yingyang Li (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Guotong Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multiplexing of PUCCH for beam failure recovery and other signals. A UE may determine a transmission dropping rule and a transmission power scaling rule for a PUCCH which is dedicatedly configured for secondary BFR transmission, such as a PUCCH-BF...