ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,230, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam blocking detection and reporting" was invented by Konstantinos Dimou (New York City, N.Y.), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a channel state information (CSI) report configuration that indicates one or more parameters associated with detecting eam blocking; calculate one or more values corresponding to the one or more parameters based at least in part on measuring downlink reference signals ...