ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,867, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Managing beam failure recovery updates" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing), Linhai He (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, methods that may be performed by a processor of a wireless device for managing beam failure recovery may include determining that a contention based random access (CBRA)-based beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure has been completed, determining whether a new candidate beam reference signal identifier was identified and included in a BFR media access control-control eleme...