ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,704, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment (UE) autonomous layer 1 (L1) / layer 2 (L2) based cell switch upon beam failure declaration (BFD)" was invented by Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Shanyu Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) and related apparatus are provided. In the method, the UE receives a configuration of a set of cells configured for layer 1 (L1) or layer 2 (L2) inter-cell mobility. The UE further transmits a special cell (SpCell) update message in response to ...