ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,430, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Radio (NR) handover, radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure detection (BFD), and candidate beam detection (CBD) with clear channel assessment (CCA)" was invented by Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for performing handover, radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure detection (BFD)...