ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,761, issued on April 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for NR radio link monitoring (RLM) and evaluation period determination" was invented by Hsuan-Li Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Kuhn-Chang Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are proposed to define UE behavior for performing synchronization signal block (SSB) based radio link monitoring (RLM) and channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based RLM. In a first novel aspect, if CSI-RS based RLM-RS is not QCLed to any CORESET, then UE determines that CSI-RS RLM configuration is error and does not perform RLM accordingly. In a ...