ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,357, issued on May 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Beam failure recovery procedures" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Beam failure recovery (BFR) procedures are described for wireless communications. A base station may send a message to a wireless device during a BFR procedure. The message may comprise one or more BFR configuration parameters and/or reconfigure one or more...