ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,245, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Beam failure management for user equipment out of synchronization in the uplink" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Clive E. Rodgers (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijng Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Yushu Zhang (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for implementing beam failure management techniques at a user equipment (UE). The UE receives a timing advance command (TAC) fro...