ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,438, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for SCell beam failure recovery configuration" was invented by Chia-Hao Yu (Yilan, Taiwan) and Chia-Hung Wei (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for SCell BFR performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first SCell BFR configuration corresponding to a first SCell, the first SCell BFR configuration including at least one of a resource list for BFD and a resource list for NBI; detecting a beam failure condition in the first SCell by measuring at least one BFD reference signal; determining a first new can...