ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,326, issued on April 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and systems for beam recovery and management" was invented by Yugeswar Deenoo (Chalfont, Pa.), Tao Deng (Roslyn, N.Y.), Martino M. Freda (Laval, Canada), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal) and Faris Alfarhan (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for beam failure recovery and management for multi-carrier communications with beamforming are disclosed herein. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may monitor for and detect a beam failure of a beam associated with a secondary cell (Scell). The WTRU may select an Sce...