ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,933, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Beam failure recovery procedures with shared radio spectrum" was invented by Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.) and Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include determining, by a wireless device, a periodic beam failure detection (BFD) reference signal (RS) is not received due to a failure of a listen before talk (LBT) procedure. The method may include transmitting, in response to the determining, a message for a BFD procedure based on receiving an aperiodic...