US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 2 for "Radio link monitoring and failure for new radio-unlicensed operation" (American, British, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,224, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Radio link monitoring and failure for new radio-unlicensed operation" was invented by Seau S. Lim (Swindon, Great Britain), Yongjun Kwak (Portland, Ore.), Anthony Lee (San Diego) and Youn Hyoung Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of in-sync/out-of-sync (IS/OOS) determination in the unlicensed band are described. Reference signals are measured on the unlicensed band. If the UE determines that at least one of the reference signals is missing, the IS/OOS condition is evaluated on that basis. If the missing signals are ignored...